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List:       mercurial
Subject:    Re: desperate with Ubuntu 13.04 and installing a recent hg version
From:       Uwe Brauer <oub () mat ! ucm ! es>
Date:       2018-03-21 16:17:18
Message-ID: 877eq5pfn5.fsf () mat ! ucm ! es
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>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Fischer <andrew@apastron.co> writes:

   > I work with local mercurial installs quite a bit on different remote
   > systems. I usually find it easier to simply build and install the latest hg
   > locally for my use.

   > Some variant of:

   > curl -O https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/mercurial-4.5.2.tar.gz
   > tar xzvf mercurial-4.5.2.tar.gz
   > cd mercurial-4.5.2/
   > make PREFIX=$HOME install

   > Then I just make sure my local prefix is part of my path (on bash):
   > export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH

   > Now 'hg' just calls my local $HOME/bin/hg and I can happily use the latest.

Thanks that worked! So it is save to obtain the tar file then to
pull/clone (with an old hg version).

Well I run make local tested it and then make clean
and make install. (And checkinstall to obtain a deb package.)

Uwe 

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