can you upgrade the version of mercurial for Ubuntu 64 bit?

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

At Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:53:56 -0500,
Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 15:08 +0800, iridium wrote:
> > Hi mpm,
> > 
> > the OS I use is Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit), I used apt-get to install 
> > mercurial, but unlucky its version is too low: 1.4.3, which is not 
> > compilable with the eclipse plugin which acquires 1.5 at least.
> > 
> > can you upgrade the version for Ubuntu 64 bit to at least 1.5?
> 
> No, I can't, I have nothing to do with Ubuntu. The Ubuntu folks can't do
> it either, as that ship has already sailed.

How about just using easy_install? 

easy_install mercurial

or

easy_install -U mercurial

Best wishes, 
Arne