How To Install trac-mercurial on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install trac-mercurial on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is trac-mercurial
trac-mercurial is:
TracMercurial is a plugin for Edgewall Software’s Trac that allows Trac to use Mercurial for version control instead of Subversion.
There are three methods to install trac-mercurial 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 trac-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 trac-mercurial using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install trac-mercurial
Install trac-mercurial Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install trac-mercurial using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install trac-mercurial
Install trac-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 trac-mercurial using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install trac-mercurial
How To Uninstall trac-mercurial on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the trac-mercurial package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove trac-mercurial
Uninstall trac-mercurial And Its Dependencies
To uninstall trac-mercurial and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove trac-mercurial
Remove trac-mercurial Configurations and Data
To remove trac-mercurial configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge trac-mercurial
Remove trac-mercurial configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove trac-mercurial configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge trac-mercurial
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install trac-mercurial package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
