How To Install tortoisehg on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tortoisehg on Debian 12.
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 12. 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 12
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 12, 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 12 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 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
