mercurial on ubuntu

[Cameron Simpson]

On 20Feb2021 21:28, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok at gmail.com> wrote:
>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 seems years out of date.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

And alternatively, again requiring the above dependencies:

    pip3 install mercurial

That gets me 5.7 at present.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>