How To Install tortoisehg-nautilus on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tortoisehg-nautilus on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tortoisehg-nautilus
tortoisehg-nautilus is:
TortoiseHg provides a graphical tool for interacting with the distributed revision control system Mercurial. GUI support is provided for over a dozen operations, including add files, commit changes, manage ignore filter, view change log, merge, recover/rollback, edit configuration, synchronize repository, and many others. The highlight is the interactive commit tool which allows easy selection of diffs from multiple files and packaging into changesets, and which is more powerful and easier to use than available alternatives such as qct and hgct (commit-tool).
This package contains the Nautilus extension for TortoiseHg.
There are three methods to install tortoisehg-nautilus 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 tortoisehg-nautilus Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tortoisehg-nautilus using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tortoisehg-nautilus
Install tortoisehg-nautilus Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tortoisehg-nautilus using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tortoisehg-nautilus
Install tortoisehg-nautilus 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 tortoisehg-nautilus using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tortoisehg-nautilus
How To Uninstall tortoisehg-nautilus on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tortoisehg-nautilus package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tortoisehg-nautilus
Uninstall tortoisehg-nautilus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tortoisehg-nautilus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tortoisehg-nautilus
Remove tortoisehg-nautilus Configurations and Data
To remove tortoisehg-nautilus configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tortoisehg-nautilus
Remove tortoisehg-nautilus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tortoisehg-nautilus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tortoisehg-nautilus
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tortoisehg-nautilus package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
