Is TortoiseHg a Windows-only app?

Jared Bunting jared.bunting at peachjean.com
Sun May 22 11:53:03 UTC 2011


On 05/22/2011 06:15 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> On 22 May 2011 12:25, Daniel Carrera<dcarrera at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Thanks. I tested it and it works. Next I'll install TortoiseHg and
>> hope that works well.
>
> Sigh...
>
> $ hgtk
> abort: This version of TortoiseHg requires Mercurial version 1.3.n to
> 1.4.n, but finds 1.8.3
>
>
> The package just looks unmaintained. Maybe I'm doing something wrong,
> but installing a PPA package on Ubuntu is supposed to be very easy. So
> it looks like, unless I try to compile sources, I will not be getting
> TortoiseHg on the most popular Linux distribution.
>
Unless you're using an Ubuntu version earlier than Karmic, try:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:tortoisehg-ppa/releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tortoisehg
thg

It works for me, and the installed tortoisehg is 2.0.4, which works with 
mercurial 1.8.x.
> Daniel.




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