Updating mercurial in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[Angel Ezquerra]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Mathieu Courtois
<mathieu.courtois at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Your problem is not with mercurial but tortoisehg.
> I suggest you to look at the TortoiseHg PPA :
> https://launchpad.net/~tortoisehg-ppa/
>
> There is not yet any update for Trusty now.
> If you need absolutly the last hg version, build thg from the source.
>
> MC
>
>
>
>
>
> 2014-05-18 0:52 GMT+02:00 Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver at aklaver.com>:
>
>> On 05/17/2014 03:14 PM, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I recently upgraded my Linux installation to Ubuntu 14.04. Since the
>>> update I can no longer run TortoiseHg. It seems that the mercurial
>>> that can be found on /usr/bin/hg is at version 2.6.2 while the
>>> TortoiseHg package that is installed through the Ubuntu software
>>> center needs mercurial 2.7 or later.
>>>
>>> I tried doing "apt-get install mercurial" to install a newer version
>>> but it tells me that the mercurial package is up to date. I think that
>>> the mercurial ppa packages that I am using is the "stable-snapshot"
>>> one (http://ppa.launchpad.net/mercurial-ppa/stable-snapshots/ubuntu).
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> Well according to here:
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mercurial
>>
>> Mercurial 2.8.2 is the default for this version of Ubuntu.
>>
>> Looking here:
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/~mercurial-ppa/+archive/releases
>>
>> and following the links I do not see anything about 14.04.
>>
>> Seems the thing to do would be to use the regular repo for the
>> distribution not the PPA.
>>
>> Or switch to this PPA which has even later versions:
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/~jacob/+archive/hg

This is quite odd. I did:

    $ which hg
    /usr/bin/hg
    $hg version
    Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.6.2+72-b90ae5d9e9c7)
    ...

So it seems mercurial was version 2.6.2.
Then I did:

    $ sudo apt-get purge --remove mercurial
    ...
    Removing mercurial-common (2.8.2-1ubuntu1) ...
    ...

So this told me that it was removing mercurial 2.8.2 even though I had
mercurial 2.6.2?

    $ which hg

The result was empty. So it seems that mercurial was uninstalled.

Then I did:
    $ sudo apt-get autoremove
    $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jacob/hg
    $ sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install mercurial
    ...
    Setting up mercurial (3.0-0~14.04~ppa0) ...
    ...

    $ which hg
    /usr/bin/hg
    $ hg version
    Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.6.2+72-b90ae5d9e9c7)

Wait, what? How did I get mercurial 2.6.2 back?
I guess that I have mercurial 2.6.2 installed somewhere. I did:

    $ sudo find / -name hg
    /home/angel/repositories/hg
    /home/angel/repositories/hg/hg
    /home/angel/repositories/hg/build/scripts-2.7/hg
    /home/angel/repositories/hg-clone/hg
    /home/angel/Dropbox/repositories/hg
    /usr/bin/hg

All those others are clones of the mercurial repo, and none of them
are on the path.

Do you guys have any ideas?

Thanks,

Angel