Hey Mike, ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Habicher" <mi...@mozilla.com> > To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:21:09 AM > Subject: Re: Please upgrade to at least Mercurial 2.5.1 > > On 13-02-21 08:41 AM, Justin Lebar wrote: > >> Can guidance be > >> provided as to where to get such things for commonly-run versions > >> of Linux? > > It's also easy to install hg using pip or easy_install. You can > > get > > either of these tools using your distro's package manager. > > (easy_install is usually called python-setuptools or something like > > that.) I think pip is the preferred method these days. > I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64 and there don't seem to be packages > for > either pip or easy_install. (And mercurial is back at 2.2.1.)
I'm running 64-bit Linux Mint 14, which is based on Ubuntu 12.10. I did the following: sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential sudo easy_install -U mercurial and it downloaded and installed 2.5.1 Dave Hylands _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
