Installing Mercurial on CentOS

[John J. Boyer]

CentOS does not have a package for Mercurial. It uses Python 2.4 and may 
depend on that version. So I'm thinking of doing a build of Python 2.4 
to get the things that Mercurial needs.

John

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:51:24PM +0300, Geoff Shang wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 
> >I downloaded the source for Mercurial 1.6. The build gave an error
> >message that it couldn't find Python.h I downloaded Python 3.1.2 That
> >put Python.h on the system, but it couldn't complete itself because it
> >couldn't find things to make modules like _curses and readline Mercurial
> >still can't find Python.h The OS is up to date, as far as the yum
> >repository goes. I really just want Mercurial, so I can use it on the
> >BrailleBlaster project. I think I announced that on this list a couple
> >of weeks ago.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As someone else said, there really should be a mercurial package to 
> install.  But in case there isn't:
> 
> 1.  I'd use a Python 2.x version (e.g. the latest 2.6.x version) as Python 
> 3 is a new beast.  At least check which version is required.  It'll either 
> be 2 or 3, but not either.
> 
> The other things sound like you need extra libs installed, and chasing 
> them might be a bit of a job, hence the package suggestion.  You'll also 
> probably need python suport for them as well.  If you do decide to go this 
> route, you'll probably need devel packages of each relevant package.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Blinux-list mailing list
> Blinux-list at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

-- 
John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities