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Install Mercurial Eclipse on 22.04 in Eclipse 4.24?

Has anyone found a way to install mercurial eclipse on 22.04? I believe i used the eclipse market place drag in my older 18.04 version of eclipse but it does not seem to work on the current version of ...
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Package 'mercurial' has no installation candidate, how do I fix it?

E: Package 'mercurial' has no installation candidate. How can i solve this problem? sudo apt-get install mercurial Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... ...
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How to install TortoiseHG with integration to Caja on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS?

On previous systems like Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS it was possible. But 20.04 LTS do not have tortoisehg and tortoisehg-caja in the repositories. What to do?
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Errors were encountered while processing: mercurial-common

I accidentally removed python from /usr/bin as it was conflicting with /usr/local/bin. (rm -rf /usr/bin/python*) After realising my mistake i reinstall python3.8 and python2.7 from source. Python is ...
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Unable to launch tortoise hg in ubuntu 18.04

I have installed tortoise hg in Ubuntu 18.04.4 using the following commands: sudo apt update sudo apt install tortoisehg I also tried installing it through Ubuntu software centre. It's getting ...
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Error installing mercurial eclipse plugin on 18.04 on Eclipse Photon

I get this error when trying to install a plugin using the mercurial eclipse drag and drop from the market place. The install site is here: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/mercurialeclipse ...
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Is it possible to simultaneously use TortoiseHG (for Mercurial) and RabbitVCS (for Git) in Caja with Cyrillic file-names?

I run Ubuntu MATE 16.04.6 LTS with Caja file-manager. I have added TortoiseHG python extension for Caja file-manager by following my method. It works great with Mercurial repositories. Currently I ...
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How to install TortoiseHg on ubuntu 19.10

I just tried to install TortoiseHg after updating from Ubuntu 19.04 to Ubuntu 19.10 and I've got the following: sudo apt install tortoisehg Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree ...
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How to install TortoiseHg on Ubuntu 20.04 from its source code

I already tried several options like these, but all I am getting are errors, like this one: python setup.py \ build_ui \ build_py -c -d . \ build_mo running build_ui running build_py ...
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How do I install an older version of Mercurial for TortoiseHG?

I wish to install TortoiseHQ to use with Bitbuket in Ubuntu, but I cannot work out how. I am using the latest version of Ubuntu 12.04 at the time of this post. I used these commands to install ...
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Why is there no git-remote-hg package in Ubuntu 18.04?

Ubuntu package search for git-remote-hg shows: Package git-remote-hg xenial (16.04LTS) (vcs): bidirectional bridge between Git and Mercurial [universe] 0.3-1: all disco (19.04) (vcs): ...
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Tortoise Hg not working on ubuntu

I have installed Tortoise Hg in my ubuntu 18.04. Its getting installed without any issues but when I am trying to open it, it doesn't open. I have tried installing it through both terminal and ubuntu ...
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How to set TortoiseHG to work with Caja on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

It is known that modern Ubuntu versions such as Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has corresponding tortoisehg-caja package. The TortoiseHG package provides GUI for Mercurial. This results in nice looking item in ...
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TortoiseHg pointing to an old version

I installed Mercurial and TortoiseHG on my Ubuntu16.04 VM. Running hg version shows me that the version is 3.7.3. Running sudo apt-get install tortoisehg shows that the TortoiseHg is already the ...
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Unable to run TortoiseHg, broken libraries and missing dependencies

Im having a hard time running TortoiseHg (GUI for mercurial). The PPA is seriously outdated and there is no self contained AppImage or a SnapCraft image. I have previously asked this question in a ...
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hweb: no templates found on Ubuntu

I recently upgraded mercurial on my server and now I'm getting the following errors for my hgweb.cgi script. When I search online for it I only find setup tutorials for windows machines talking about ...
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Can't update tortoisehg in Ubuntu KDE [duplicate]

I'm trying to update tortoisehg as the current version that I have is 2.2, however: $ sudo apt-get install tortoisehg tortoisehg is already the newest version I have also tried these commands: sudo ...
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GIT, SVN, Mercurial and Bazaar packages available to install (GUI & Terminal)

What packages are available in Ubuntu to use the following distributed version control systems via Terminal or GUI? GIT SVN Mercurial Bazaar
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Can not install Mercurial (Depends)

I used the command: sudo apt-get install mercurial mercurial-common Result: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mercurial : Depends: mercurial-common (= 4.0.2~trusty1) but 4.1~rc~...
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Pass passphrase to "hg pull"

I am really confused guys. I am very new to Linux, but still: I am trying to do hg pull ssh://[email protected]/repo on a VPS via Paramiko from Python on my laptop. I have already added the public ...
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Install TortoiseHG with mercurial 3.3.2

I want a GUI to view, compare and checkout versions of my project(s). But when I want to install Tortoise HG, apt proposes to downgrade Mercurial. I remember that upgrading to 3.3 has solved some ...
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Any complete GUI interface for Mercurial?

I've tried TortoiseHG from the repositories, but it wasn't working at all.
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Ubuntu, Mercurial unable to commit

I'm trying to commit from Netbeans to a mercurial repository. Did all the SSH setup but get the following error: Mercurial Commit ---------------- Disable description field. ERROR Command failed: ...
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PPA for recent versions of mercurial

Im trying to access mercurial repositories that were created on windows with mercurial version 1.8.2. As the version in the repositories is a few numbers behind, its not playing ball. Does anyone ...
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Overriding terminal width in Mercurial command

Some Mercurial commands format output differently depending on the width of the terminal. This is convenient when I just need to look at the output, but very inconvenient when the output is not sent ...
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TortoiseHG automatically deinstalled on software update, ubuntu software centre now refuse to re-install (U-14.04)

details: $ sudo apt-get install mercurial Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mercurial is already the newest version. mercurial set to ...
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Is hg-bzr plugin possible?

I wonder why there is no Mercurial plugin to work with Launchpad/Bazaar from Mercurial? Is there any technical limitation that make it impossible to use local Mercurial storage/clone for working with ...
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Is it safe to init a Mercurial repository on /etc?

My company has an external server, mostly managed by a 3rd party. Sometimes they do configuration changes but 'forgot' to tell us. I am thinking of tracking all changes to /etc. Is it safe to do hg ...
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Mercurial no color in commands after doing su

First noticed in 12.04 still persists in 14.04 This happens when to change to a system user (www-data, postgres, etc) and not for a user which has a desktop profile setup. What I have tried: Copy ....
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Tortoisehg doesn't show up in nautilus context menu

I just installed ubuntu 11.10 on my netbook yesterday. I am having a problem getting tortoisehg working properly on it. I added the ppa for both tortoisehg and mercurial. I am able to install the ...
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Which file explorer has Mercurial support?

I know Nautilus has support for Mercurial, but I'm not seeing the icon overlays even after installing tortoisehg-nautilus on Ubuntu 14.04. I'm interested in knowing which Linux file explorers (both ...
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How to use TortoiseHG in Nautilus?

I'm used to TortoiseHg on Windows. I tried apt-get install tortoisehg tortoisehg-nautilus But after the installation I still can't use it by typing tortoisehg In the terminal or in the launcher, ...
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.nfs0000... files keep showing up and disappearing when using Mercurial

As of late, something seems to have happened on my machine that is more annoying than anything else: every time I look in a directory for Mercurial changes it tells me about two .nfs#### files that ...
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hgsubversion, mercurial (ppa): broken dependencies

I have installed mercurial from the PPA, then I wanted to install hgsubversion. That fails due to unmet dependencies. But they are met, as far as I understand. What am I missing here? jb@x60 ~ $ apt-...
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Tortoisehg integration within nautilus3.6.3 in ubuntu 13.04

I installed ubuntu 13.04 (with Gnome nautilus 3.6.3) and tried to install tortoise workbench using these commands in he terminal sudo apt-get install mercurial tortoisehg tortoisehg-nautilus ...
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TortoiseHG doesn't show up in 13.04

TortoiseHG previously worked on 12.10, but after today's reinstall, it simply doesn't show up, not even with the thg command.
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Despite ssh-agent, TortoiseHG keeps asking for the passphrase

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and TortoiseHG to access repositories in Bitbucket. I use ssh keys for authentication. I run: ssh-agent then ssh-add and enter my passphrase. I can now use Mercurial and ...
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Why did Apache stop working after adding two sites?

I wanted both Redmine and Mercurial on localhost/redmine and localhost/mercurial. Redmine is a RoR application that runs on mod_passenger module and mercurial runs on a CGI script. I should be able ...
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What happened to tortoisehg-nautilus in 12.04?

When I run sudo apt-get install tortoisehg-nautilus under Ubuntu 12.04 I get: E: Unable to locate package tortoisehg-nautilus The same command works under Ubuntu 10.04 and I get full nautilus ...
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Can't use HG through a mounted directory

I have a repository on my development server whose directory I have mounted using sshfs. I've synced up my uid/guid and seem to be able to execute/edit files as usual on said directory, as if I had ...
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Tortoisehg keyring extension configuration

I have tortoisehg (2.1.1) installed on Ubuntu 10.10 and it is working correctly. I would like to configure the keyring extension but am having trouble finding the mercurial.ini file on my system as ...
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hgsubversion doesn't find python bindings

I upgraded to 11.10 yesterday, and since then the hgsubversion extension of mercurial no longer find the python bindings. abort: no compatible bindings available: Subversion 1.5.0 or later required, ...
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Is it possible to install Mercurial 1.9 on 9.10?

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 ...
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I need Mercurial 1.8.x back

I'm getting Mercurial from this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mercurial-ppa/+archive/releases/+packages?field.name_filter=mercurial&field.status_filter=&field.series_filter= The Eclipse plugin ...
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Mercurial central repository at a Samba location

I have a remote Samba location mounted as /mnt/rua as discussed here. I have created a folder HgRepository there, which is my central Mercurial repo. I am working with a local clone and push the ...
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Installing TortoiseHg: need higher Mercurial version

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04, and I'm trying to install TortoiseHg. I've applied the PPA from TortoiseHg's website, so that apt-get can actually find it. But whenever I type sudo apt-get tortoisehg, I get ...
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Can't find hg-buildpackage

It was suggested I use hg-buildpackage to build my Ubuntu packages because it will ignore my .hg folder and files. However I can't seem to find it in the Ubuntu 10.10 repos. How can I get hg-...
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.bash_history and .cache

I have a user who's home directory is a Mercurial repository. Mercurial notified me that there were 2 new unversioned files in my repository. .bash_history and .cache/motd.legal-displayed. I assume ...
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Where did Mercurial install to?

I used sudo apt-get install mercurial to install Hg.. where did it put the executable? I need to specify the location in Netbeans. Is there a general way to find where apt-get installs things? (...
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Compile Mercurial

I'm trying to install latest version of Mercurial (1.6.4) into my Ubuntu 10.10 but I'm getting this error when I do "make install": Couldn't import standard zlib (incomplete Python install) Worth ...