Install TortoiseHg on Linux Mint

Published: July 02, 2013 by Yi Zeng (Last updated: March 18, 2014)

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This is a note for how to install TortoiseHg on Linux Mint 15 via TortoiseHg Release PPA.

Note:

• It is suggested that do NOT also include a Mercurial PPA in the system, as TortoiseHg has strict version requirements for which versions of Mercurial it can interoperate with.
• TortoiseHg PPA Stable Snapshots provides packages of the latest TortoiseHg release.

Steps:

1. Add TortoiseHg Release PPA to the system

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

2. Get information on the newest versions of packages and their dependencies

   sudo apt-get update

3. Install tortoisehg package

   sudo apt-get install tortoisehg

4. Check if installation succeeded

   hg --version

   Terminal output for example:

   Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.8.2)
   (see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information)
   
   Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Matt Mackall and others
   This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
   warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.