How To Install mercurial-evolve on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-evolve on Debian 12.
What is mercurial-evolve
mercurial-evolve is:
This package provides the experimental “evolve” extension for the Mercurial DVCS.
This extension provides several commands to mutate history and deal with issues it may raise.
There are three methods to install mercurial-evolve 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 mercurial-evolve 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-evolve using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mercurial-evolve
Install mercurial-evolve Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mercurial-evolve using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mercurial-evolve
Install mercurial-evolve 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 mercurial-evolve using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mercurial-evolve
How To Uninstall mercurial-evolve on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mercurial-evolve package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mercurial-evolve
Uninstall mercurial-evolve And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mercurial-evolve and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mercurial-evolve
Remove mercurial-evolve Configurations and Data
To remove mercurial-evolve configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mercurial-evolve
Remove mercurial-evolve configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mercurial-evolve configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mercurial-evolve
Dependencies
mercurial-evolve have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-evolve package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
