How To Install mercurial-nested on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-nested on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mercurial-nested
mercurial-nested is:
The extension was inspired by the forest extension by Robin Farine. It allows one to apply common Mercurial commands to all the nested repositories at once like pull, push etc. It allows also to fetch a complete tree of repositories through ssh or http.
There are three methods to install mercurial-nested 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-nested 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-nested using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mercurial-nested
Install mercurial-nested Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mercurial-nested using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mercurial-nested
Install mercurial-nested 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-nested using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mercurial-nested
How To Uninstall mercurial-nested on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mercurial-nested package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mercurial-nested
Uninstall mercurial-nested And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mercurial-nested and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mercurial-nested
Remove mercurial-nested Configurations and Data
To remove mercurial-nested configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mercurial-nested
Remove mercurial-nested configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mercurial-nested configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mercurial-nested
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-nested package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
