Mercurial > hgbook
changeset 262:6a847f7902a7
Update description of Ubuntu package.
| author | Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> |
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| date | Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:10:22 -0700 |
| parents | a24b370a16ee |
| children | 9dbed77d3ba6 |
| files | en/tour-basic.tex |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/en/tour-basic.tex Sun Jun 17 11:21:32 2007 -0700 +++ b/en/tour-basic.tex Fri Jul 13 12:10:22 2007 -0700 @@ -43,11 +43,15 @@ yum install mercurial \end{codesample4} -\item[Ubuntu] Ubuntu's Mercurial package is particularly old, and you - should not use it. If you know how, you can rebuild and install the - Debian package. It's probably easier to build Mercurial from source - and simply run that; see section~\ref{sec:srcinstall:unixlike} for - details. +\item[Ubuntu] Ubuntu's Mercurial package is based on Debian's. To + install it, run the following command. + \begin{codesample4} + apt-get install mercurial + \end{codesample4} + The Ubuntu package for Mercurial tends to lag behind the Debian + version by a considerable time margin (at the time of writing, seven + months), which in some cases will mean that on Ubuntu, you may run + into problems that have since been fixed in the Debian package. \end{itemize} \subsection{Mac OS X}