Installing Mercurial from Source Files on Ubuntu

I am new to Ubuntu and Mercurial, so I wanted to see if anyone has experience installing Mercurial from source since it does not have an Ubuntu-specific distribution.

What is the best way for me to install Mercurial from sour开发者_JAVA百科ce? Any ideas? :)

Thanks, Alex

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You can install Mercurial from source using pip (apt-get install pip if you don't already have it):

pip install mercurial

This will usually install it to /usr/local/bin/hg, instead of the default /usr/bin/hg.

If you want to install a specific version, you can always point pip at one of the source releases, such as https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/mercurial-1.8.1.tar.gz.

Lastly, if you really want to install from source, download one of those source tarballs, unzip it, and run

cd mercurial-1.8.1
python setup.py install

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Yes it does. It's called mercurial. You can do:

sudo apt-get install mercurial

or use the graphical package manager.

If you need a later version, you can use the PPA. You certainly can build it from source if you want. The easiest way is to use apt-get source, then build the package. If you want to build it from upstream source, that's possible too.

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On Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install mercurial