mercurial vs >= 3.0 deb for Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit

[Arnel]

On 14 April 2016 10:32AM, Augie Fackler wrote:
> > On Apr 13, 2016, at 13:19, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
> > 
> >   
> >> On 13 April 2016 11:12AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:  
> >   
> >> Is building Mercurial from source completely not an option?  
> > 
> > Is is an option, I just had a lot of bad experience upgrading pandoc on
> > Ubuntu 10.04, so I'd prefer a compiled version, but if there isn't any,
> > I have to build it my own, since 1.4.1 I consider far too old.  
> 
> Note that 'make deb' is a thing you can do in any recent (3.7.x certainly) source tree for hg and (assuming you have the right tools installed) it'll drop out a deb for your current OS. It'll even run the tests before it builds the deb.
> 
> (Not sure if that's helpful, but maybe it is?)

I tried that around a month ago on an Ubuntu 14.04 machine, and it never worked
for me. Where I was able to get a .deb package from was after running 'sudo
checkinstall'.

I'd still like to use it in the future, though. Are there any requirements for
it?

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Thank you,
Arnel