mercurial on ubuntu

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "RW" == Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok at gmail.com> writes:

   > 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 seems years out of date.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

Why don't you run

 make deb

I do this and find it very convenient especially if I want to compiler a
newer (or older version: because of extensions not working with the
latest mercurial releases)

Uwe 
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