How To Install mercurial-extension-utils on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-extension-utils on Debian 9. mercurial-extension-utils is Contains functions for writing Mercurial extensions.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-extension-utils on Debian 9.

What is mercurial-extension-utils

mercurial-extension-utils is:

Contains functions used by Mercurial extension mercurial-keyring. They are mostly tiny utilities related to configuration processing or location matching. They either extend Mercurial APIs a bit or support tasks which aren’t strictly Mercurial related, but happen repeatedly during extension writing.

There are three methods to install mercurial-extension-utils on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mercurial-extension-utils Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mercurial-extension-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mercurial-extension-utils

Install mercurial-extension-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mercurial-extension-utils using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mercurial-extension-utils

Install mercurial-extension-utils 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install mercurial-extension-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mercurial-extension-utils

How To Uninstall mercurial-extension-utils on Debian 9

To uninstall only the mercurial-extension-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mercurial-extension-utils

Uninstall mercurial-extension-utils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mercurial-extension-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mercurial-extension-utils

Remove mercurial-extension-utils Configurations and Data

To remove mercurial-extension-utils configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mercurial-extension-utils

Remove mercurial-extension-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mercurial-extension-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mercurial-extension-utils

Dependencies

mercurial-extension-utils have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-extension-utils package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.