How To Install hgview on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hgview on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is hgview
hgview 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 Qt4 interface.
There are three methods to install hgview 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hgview
Install hgview Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hgview using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hgview
Install hgview 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hgview
How To Uninstall hgview on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the hgview package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hgview
Uninstall hgview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hgview and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hgview
Remove hgview Configurations and Data
To remove hgview configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hgview
Remove hgview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hgview configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hgview
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hgview package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
