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A little progress on "lightning tour".
author Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
date Wed Oct 04 15:15:54 2006 -0700 (2006-10-04)
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1 \chapter{A lightning tour of Mercurial}
2 \label{chap:tour}
3
4 \section{Installing Mercurial on your system}
5 \label{sec:tour:install}
6
7 Prebuilt binary packages of Mercurial are available for every popular
8 operating system. These make it easy to start using Mercurial on your
9 computer immediately.
10
11 \subsection{Linux}
12
13 Because each Linux distribution has its own packaging tools, policies,
14 and rate of development, it's difficult to give a comprehensive set of
15 instructions on how to install Mercurial binaries. The version of
16 Mercurial that you will end up with can vary depending on how active
17 the person is who maintains the package for your distribution.
18
19 To keep things simple, I will focus on installing Mercurial from the
20 command line under the most popular Linux distributions. Most of
21 these distributions provide graphical package managers that will let
22 you install Mercurial with a single click; the package name to look
23 for is \texttt{mercurial}.
24
25 \begin{itemize}
26 \item[Debian]
27 \begin{codesample4}
28 apt-get install mercurial
29 \end{codesample4}
30
31 \item[Fedora Core]
32 \begin{codesample4}
33 yum install mercurial
34 \end{codesample4}
35
36 \item[Gentoo]
37 \begin{codesample4}
38 emerge mercurial
39 \end{codesample4}
40
41 \item[OpenSUSE]
42 \begin{codesample4}
43 yum install mercurial
44 \end{codesample4}
45
46 \item[Ubuntu] Ubuntu's Mercurial package is particularly old, and you
47 should not use it. If you know how, you can rebuild and install the
48 Debian package. It's probably easier to build Mercurial from source
49 and simply run that; see section~\ref{sec:srcinstall:unixlike} for
50 details.
51 \end{itemize}
52
53 \subsection{Mac OS X}
54
55 Lee Cantey publishes an installer of Mercurial for Mac OS~X at
56 \url{http://mercurial.berkwood.com}. This package works on both
57 Intel-~and Power-based Macs. Before you can use it, you must install
58 a compatible version of Universal MacPython~\cite{web:macpython}. This
59 is easy to do; simply follow the instructions on Lee's site.
60
61 \subsection{Solaris}
62
63 XXX.
64
65 \subsection{Windows}
66
67 Lee Cantey publishes an installer of Mercurial for Windows at
68 \url{http://mercurial.berkwood.com}. This package has no external
69 dependencies; it ``just works''.
70
71 \begin{note}
72 The Windows version of Mercurial does not automatically convert line
73 endings between Windows and Unix styles. If you want to share work
74 with Unix users, you must do a little additional configuration
75 work. XXX Flesh this out.
76 \end{note}
77
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