mercurial on rhel4

Mercurial installation on RHEL4

Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects. For more information, see http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

Since there are currently no official binary packages that work in RHEL4, we have to run a quick installation procedure, as follows:

1) download the latest mercurial tarball from http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/?M=D

# cd /var/tmp
# wget http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/mercurial-0.9.3.tar.gz

2) Uncompress and install, following the instructions here: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/UnixInstall

# tar zxvf mercurial-0.9.3.tar.gz
# cd mercurial-0.9.3
# python setup.py install

3) Test the installation:

# [root mercurial-0.9.3]# hg debuginstall
Checking encoding (ANSI_X3.4-1968)…
Checking extensions…
Checking templates…
Checking patch…
Checking merge helper…
Checking commit editor…
Checking username…
 No username found, using 'root@<yourdomain>' instead
 (specify a username in your .hgrc file)
No problems detected