Is it possible to install Mercurial 1.9 on 9.10?

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So I have an old server which I want to use as Mercurial repository host. apt-get install mercurial gives me v0.9, which is stoneage and without Windows filename workaround, which I rely on.

I've downloaded the v1.9 source and tried to build it but I end up in a web of depedency conflicts. Is it any way I can get v1.9 of mercurial to run in an Intrepid installation (kernel 2.6.24-19-generic)?

If not, how about 1.1 (the first one with Windows filename workaround)?

You'll likely need to upgrade or satisfy all the dependencies. Karmic has been EOL'd since April — Marco Ceppi, Sep 22 '11 at 22:31

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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Short answer: No.

Long answer: Nada.

First, 9.10 has reached its "EOL", or "End Of Life" - you'd be better off installing 10.04 or 8.04, they're still supported.

With that being said, you could try to enable the backports repository - (more on that here) and see if it's got Mercurial 1.9.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Sep 22 '11 at 22:55

jrg

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 23 '11 at 07:28

I made it! I actually tried to upgrade the release first with do-release-upgrade, but that failed. What did succeed in this process however, was upgrading Python using aptitude (apt-get failed). This lead me to try and compile the source for mercurial agaian, and voila!

So aptitude install python-dev did the trick, followed by make install

To be honest, I'm not quite sure which apt-sources I used at that moment, but I think it was Hardy. Guess no one else will try this after me anyway, so... well anyway :)

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 22 '11 at 22:27

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You can get Mercurial 1.9 from the PPA for it. To add it, pop open a terminal and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mercurial-ppa/releases

Once that's completed, run a quick update.

sudo apt-get update

Then you can now install the latest Mercurial using apt-get.

answered Sep 22 '11 at 22:27

Simon Sheehan

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It looks like they only have installs for hardy, lucid, maverick, and natty. Not Karmic since it's been EOL'd for a while. – Marco Ceppi Sep 22 '11 at 22:30
@Marco Will it not work though? I have used older packages before and such – Simon Sheehan Sep 22 '11 at 22:32
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These are new packages on older systems. The dependency hell will still exist. – Marco Ceppi Sep 22 '11 at 23:43
@MarcoCeppi Ah okay, oops. – Simon Sheehan Sep 22 '11 at 23:54
add-apt-repository: command not found :-P Seems like it was first introduced in Karmic. Oh well... Look's like I'm heading for an upgrade – Nilzor Sep 23 '11 at 06:10

Is it possible to install Mercurial 1.9 on 9.10?

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