How To Install mercurial-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-common on Kali Linux.

What is mercurial-common

mercurial-common is:

Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

This package contains the architecture independent components of Mercurial, and is generally useless without the mercurial package.

There are three methods to install mercurial-common on Kali Linux. 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-common 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-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mercurial-common

Install mercurial-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mercurial-common

Install mercurial-common Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install mercurial-common

How To Uninstall mercurial-common on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mercurial-common

Uninstall mercurial-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mercurial-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mercurial-common

Remove mercurial-common Configurations and Data

To remove mercurial-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mercurial-common

Remove mercurial-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mercurial-common

Dependencies

mercurial-common have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• mercurial-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.