How To Install mercurial-crecord on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is mercurial-crecord

mercurial-crecord is:

The selective commit functionality of Mercuial allows you to interactively choose among the changes you have made (with line-level granularity), and commit only those changes you select. After committing the selected changes, the unselected changes are still present in your working copy, so you can use hg commit -i multiple times to split large changes into several smaller changesets.

This package shipped an extension which provided the following hg commands:

• crecord,
• qcrecord,
• qcrefresh.

This functionality has been incorporated into Mercurial since version 3.8.1.

This package is only provided for the convenience of the users of crecord and can be safely removed.

There are three methods to install mercurial-crecord 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-crecord 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-crecord using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mercurial-crecord

Install mercurial-crecord Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mercurial-crecord

Install mercurial-crecord 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-crecord using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mercurial-crecord

How To Uninstall mercurial-crecord on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mercurial-crecord

Uninstall mercurial-crecord And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mercurial-crecord

Remove mercurial-crecord Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mercurial-crecord

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

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

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

Dependencies

mercurial-crecord have the following dependencies:

• mercurial

References

• mercurial-crecord website

Summary

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