How To Install mercurial-extension-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-extension-utils on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mercurial-extension-utils
mercurial-extension-utils is:
Contains functions used by Mercurial extension mercurial-keyring. They are mostly tiny utilities related to configuration processing or location matching. They either extend Mercurial APIs a bit or support tasks which aren’t strictly Mercurial related, but happen repeatedly during extension writing.
There are three methods to install mercurial-extension-utils 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-extension-utils 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-extension-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mercurial-extension-utils
Install mercurial-extension-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mercurial-extension-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mercurial-extension-utils
Install mercurial-extension-utils 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-extension-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mercurial-extension-utils
How To Uninstall mercurial-extension-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mercurial-extension-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mercurial-extension-utils
Uninstall mercurial-extension-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mercurial-extension-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mercurial-extension-utils
Remove mercurial-extension-utils Configurations and Data
To remove mercurial-extension-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mercurial-extension-utils
Remove mercurial-extension-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mercurial-extension-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mercurial-extension-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-extension-utils package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
