changeset 84:43b9793b4e38

Begin tour chapter.

--- a/en/00book.tex	Tue Oct 03 13:03:42 2006 -0700
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@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 \include{preface}
 \include{intro}
 %\include{concepts}
+\include{tour}
 \include{daily}
 \include{hook}
 \include{template}

--- a/en/Makefile	Tue Oct 03 13:03:42 2006 -0700
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 	intro.tex \
 	mq.tex \
 	preface.tex \
-	template.tex
+	template.tex \
+	tour.tex
 
 image-sources := \
 	mq-stack.svg

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+\chapter{A lightning tour of Mercurial}
+\label{chap:tour}
+
+\section{Installing Mercurial on your system}
+\label{sec:tour:install}
+
+\subsection{Linux}
+
+All major Linux distributions provide a prebuilt Mercurial package.
+Because each Linux distribution has its own packaging tools, policies,
+and rate of development, it's difficult to give a comprehensive set of
+instructions on how to install Mercurial binaries, and the version of
+Mercurial that you will end up with can vary widely.  
+
+To keep things simple, I will focus on installing Mercurial from the
+command line under the most popular Linux distributions.  Most of
+these distributions provide graphical package managers that will let
+you install Mercurial with a single click; the package name to look
+for is \texttt{mercurial}.
+
+\subsubsection{Debian}
+
+\begin{codesample2}
+  apt-get install mercurial
+\end{codesample2}
+
+\subsubsection{Fedora Core}
+
+\begin{codesample2}
+  yum install mercurial
+\end{codesample2}
+
+\subsubsection{Gentoo}
+
+\begin{codesample2}
+  emerge mercurial
+\end{codesample2}
+
+\subsubsection{OpenSUSE}
+
+\begin{codesample2}
+  yum install mercurial
+\end{codesample2}
+
+\subsubsection{Ubuntu}
+
+\begin{codesample2}
+  apt-get install mercurial
+\end{codesample2}
+
+\subsection{Mac OS X}
+
+Lee Cantey publishes an installer of Mercurial for Mac OS~X at
+\url{http://mercurial.berkwood.com}.  This package works on both
+Intel- and Power-based Macs, but requires you to install Universal
+Python before you can use it.  This is easy to do; simply follow the
+instructions on Lee's site.
+
+\subsection{Solaris}
+
+XXX.
+
+\subsection{Windows}
+
+Lee Cantey publishes an installer of Mercurial for Windows at
+\url{http://mercurial.berkwood.com}.  This package has no external
+dependencies; it ``just works''.
+
+\begin{note}
+  The Windows version of Mercurial does not automatically convert line
+  endings between Windows and Unix styles.  If you want to share work
+  with Unix users, you must do a little additional configuration
+  work. XXX Flesh this out.
+\end{note}
+
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+%%% TeX-master: "00book"
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