knowledgebase/linux/miscapplications/mercurial on rhel4 1 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 {code:none} # cd /var/tmp # wget http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/mercurial-0.9.3.tar.gz {code} 2) Uncompress and install, following the instructions here: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/UnixInstall {code:none} # tar zxvf mercurial-0.9.3.tar.gz # cd mercurial-0.9.3 # python setup.py install {code} 3) Test the installation: {code:none} # [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 {code} 2007-02-17 14:04:45.0 2007-02-17 14:04:45.0