How To Install eclipse-mercurialeclipse on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-mercurialeclipse on Ubuntu 18.04. eclipse-mercurialeclipse is Mercurial DVCS integration for Eclipse

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-mercurialeclipse on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is eclipse-mercurialeclipse

eclipse-mercurialeclipse is:

MercurialEclipse is a plugin providing support for the highly popular Mercurial distributed version control system within the Eclipse IDE.

MercurialEclipse supports:

  • cloning repositories and importing them as Eclipse projects
  • push, pull and convenient syncronization
  • working with branches (branch, merge and rebase)
  • tags
  • undo (backout, rollback and strip)
  • diffs
  • histories
  • patches
  • Mercurial extensions (mqueue, transplant and such)

There are three methods to install eclipse-mercurialeclipse 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 eclipse-mercurialeclipse Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-mercurialeclipse using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install eclipse-mercurialeclipse

Install eclipse-mercurialeclipse Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-mercurialeclipse using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install eclipse-mercurialeclipse

Install eclipse-mercurialeclipse 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 eclipse-mercurialeclipse using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install eclipse-mercurialeclipse

How To Uninstall eclipse-mercurialeclipse on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the eclipse-mercurialeclipse package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove eclipse-mercurialeclipse

Uninstall eclipse-mercurialeclipse And Its Dependencies

To uninstall eclipse-mercurialeclipse and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove eclipse-mercurialeclipse

Remove eclipse-mercurialeclipse Configurations and Data

To remove eclipse-mercurialeclipse configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge eclipse-mercurialeclipse

Remove eclipse-mercurialeclipse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove eclipse-mercurialeclipse configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eclipse-mercurialeclipse

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-mercurialeclipse package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.