tortoiseHg versions

[Steve Borho]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:33 AM, techware at telus.net <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."
>
> I looked up Mercurial 2.4 for Ubuntu, but it is unstable and therefore
> apt-get cannot install it.
>
> Do you know how I can fix this so I can run TortoiseHg?
>

The most direct way would be to remove the tortoisehg package and clone
https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg and symlink the thg script into your
$PATH.  Then you can upgrade/downgrade TortoiseHg at your whim.  Our wiki
has more detailed info for running from a clone.

-- 
Steve Borho
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