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

[Kevin Bullock]

On 9 Sep 2011, at 8:53 AM, 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.

Actually, since 10.04 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) version, they could put a newer version in the backports repository. But they haven't, and most people seem to use the PPA Matt mentions below. I myself have been using it in production for several years now without issue.

pacem in terris / mir / shanti / salaam / heiwa
Kevin R. Bullock

> However, you can go here to find third-party packages:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~mercurial-ppa/+archive/releases
> 
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