Updating mercurial in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[Yuya Nishihara]

On Sun, 18 May 2014 12:00:08 +0200, Angel Ezquerra wrote:
> 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?

Probably you have old mercurial libs somewhere in your PYTHONPATH.
Try

    $ python -c 'import mercurial; print mercurial.__file__'
    and
    $ hg debuginstall

Regards,