How To Install mercurial-crecord on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-crecord on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mercurial-crecord
mercurial-crecord is:
The crecord mercurial extension 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 crecord multiple times to split large change s into several smaller changesets.
This extension provides the following hg commands:
- crecord,
- qcrecord,
- qcrefresh.
There are three methods to install mercurial-crecord on Ubuntu 18.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-crecord package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
