mercurial on ubuntu

[Dr Rainer Woitok]

Ernie,

On Saturday, 2021-02-20 10:07:55 -0800, you wrote:

> ...
> Doing "apt install mercurial" installed 5.5.1. So I thought I'd get the 
> latest, 5.7.1. The download page suggest using some PPA for ubuntu, it 
> seems years out of date.

Under Ubuntu you'll need the additional dependencies "python",  "python-
dev", and "python-docutils".  Then just use the Ubuntu Mercurial to do

   $ cd ~
   $ hg clone -U https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg-stable mercurial
   $ cd mercurial
   $ hg up stable
   $ make local
   $ make doc

Finally prefix environment variable "PATH" with "~/mercurial:".  Voila.

Sincerely,
  Rainer