How To Install mercurial on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mercurial
mercurial is:
Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.
Its features include:
- O(1) delta-compressed file storage and retrieval scheme
- Complete cross-indexing of files and changesets for efficient exploration of project history
- Robust SHA1-based integrity checking and append-only storage model
- Decentralized development model with arbitrary merging between trees
- High-speed HTTP-based network merge protocol
- Easy-to-use command-line interface
- Integrated stand-alone web interface
- Small Python codebase
This package contains the architecture dependent files.
There are three methods to install mercurial
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mercurial
Install mercurial Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mercurial
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mercurial
Install mercurial 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mercurial
How To Uninstall mercurial on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mercurial
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mercurial
Uninstall mercurial And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mercurial
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mercurial
Remove mercurial Configurations and Data
To remove mercurial
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mercurial
Remove mercurial configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mercurial
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mercurial
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.