installing 1.4.2

[John Francis Lee]

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Nicolas Dumazet wrote:
> Sorry for this messy email:
> 
> 2010/1/12 Nicolas Dumazet <nicdumz at gmail.com>:
> [..]
>> You OS, and the detail that you are installing from source is
>> important: others could have messed up packaging for example.
> 
> Your*
> 
>> Anyway.
>> The code to display the version number is fairly simple:
>>
>>  try:
>>    import __version__
>>    return __version__.simple
> 
> this is "return __version__.version" of course.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>>  except ImportError:
>>    return "unknown"
>>
>> It is a hint in favor of a configuration error on your side, and more
>> likely, a PATH issue.
>>
>> Could you please double-deck that PATH, and PYTHONPATH, both
>>  a) include the paths to your hg executable and libs
>>  b) do not conflict with a possible system-wide .deb-installed hg?
>>
>> the __version__.py file you checked might not be the one accessed by
>> the hg command, for example.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ
>>
> 
> 
> 

PYTHONPATH is unset. Packagemanagment says that mercurial is not
installed, but I must have installed it earlier on myself because there
is an hg in /usr/bin, and a
  /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial-unknown-py2.5-linux-i686.egg/

Can I just delete the old one?

I don't unserstand the instructions about

 load __version__

I tried that in python, but python said it knew of no __version__ module.
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