How To Install eclipse-mercurialeclipse on Ubuntu 18.04
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
References
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
.