How to install Mercurial 1.0 on Cygwin
Mercurial 1.0 has been released and I just posted, How to install Mercurial 1.0 on Ubuntu Gutsy (or Hardy). Here are instructions for installing Mercurial 1.0 on Cygwin.
Install Mercurial 1.0- Install Python Easy Install
$ cd /tmp $ wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py $ python ez_setup.py
- Install Mercurial 1.0
$ easy_install -U mercurial
- Trying
hg version, gives me aImportError: Permission deniederror. Apparently, there is a Eggs/Cygwin problem. To fix it, make the dll files executable:
$ chmod +x /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial-1.0-py2.5-cygwin-1.5.25-i686.egg/mercurial/*.dll
How to install Mercurial 1.0 on Ubuntu Hardy
Mercurial 1.0 is out! Mercurial is a next generation "fast, lightweight source control management system" boasting conversions by notable projects NetBeans, OpenJDK, Globulation2, Xine, Mozilla, grml, and OpenSolaris.
From the release notes, version 1.0 has improvements for copying, renaming, removing, and merging. I want to use the most robust version possible, so I decided to upgrade. Ubuntu Gutsy's Mercurial version is 0.9.4, and even Hardy will only have 0.9.5. Luckily, Mercurial 1.0 is easy-installable. That makes it easy to install:
Install Mercurial 1.0
- If you don't already have Mercurial 0 ...
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