How To Install hgview-curses on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hgview-curses on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is hgview-curses
hgview-curses is:
Its purpose is to easily navigate in a mercurial repository history. It has been written with efficiency in mind when dealing with quite big repositories.
This package installs the text interface. Note that the Qt interface is more complete than the text interface and provides more views.
There are three methods to install hgview-curses on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install hgview-curses Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hgview-curses using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hgview-curses
Install hgview-curses Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hgview-curses using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hgview-curses
Install hgview-curses Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install hgview-curses using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hgview-curses
How To Uninstall hgview-curses on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the hgview-curses package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hgview-curses
Uninstall hgview-curses And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hgview-curses and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hgview-curses
Remove hgview-curses Configurations and Data
To remove hgview-curses configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hgview-curses
Remove hgview-curses configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hgview-curses configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hgview-curses
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hgview-curses package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
