How To Install tortoisehg on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install tortoisehg on Debian 11. tortoisehg is Graphical tool for working with Mercurial

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tortoisehg on Debian 11.

What is tortoisehg

tortoisehg is:

TortoiseHg provides a graphical tool for interacting with the distributed revision control system Mercurial. GUI support is provided for over a dozen operations, including add files, commit changes, manage ignore filter, view change log, merge, recover/rollback, edit configuration, synchronize repository, and many others. The highlight is the interactive commit tool which allows easy selection of diffs from multiple files and packaging into changesets, and which is more powerful and easier to use than available alternatives such as qct and hgct (commit-tool).

There are three methods to install tortoisehg on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tortoisehg Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tortoisehg

Install tortoisehg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tortoisehg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tortoisehg

Install tortoisehg 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 tortoisehg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tortoisehg

How To Uninstall tortoisehg on Debian 11

To uninstall only the tortoisehg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tortoisehg

Uninstall tortoisehg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tortoisehg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tortoisehg

Remove tortoisehg Configurations and Data

To remove tortoisehg configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tortoisehg

Remove tortoisehg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tortoisehg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tortoisehg

Dependencies

tortoisehg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tortoisehg package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.