tortoiseHg versions

[Matt Mackall]

On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 10:33 -0600, techware at telus.net wrote:
> When I run tortoiseHg on Ubuntu I receive the error "This version of TortoiseHg requires Mercurial version 1.9.n to 2.0.n, but found 2.2.2."
> 
> I tried correcting this by using apt-get purge to uninstall TortoiseHg
> and Mercurial, then do an apt-get autoremove and autoclean to get rid
> everything. Then I install Mercurial version 2.0.2 and TortoiseHg
> 2.2-1 and run thg again and it still gives me the error. The command
> hg --version says I have version 2.2.2 although I installed 2.0.2.
> 
> I get the similar same results when I install Mercurial version 2.6
> and TortoiseHg 2.8 which give the error message "This version of
> TortoiseHg requires Mercurial version 2.4.n, but found 2.2.2."

Did you perhaps install Mercurial with distutils at some point?

Try this:

find / -name "mercurial"

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