Question about installing mercurial 1.7 [no 'docutils']

Mads Kiilerich mads at kiilerich.com
Wed Nov 3 05:08:46 CDT 2010


On 11/03/2010 01:31 AM, cielo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My OS is centOS, and since I am connected to the remote server, I do
> not have a root access. I tried installing mercurial 1.7 with a
> command 'make install-home' since I do not have a root access, then I
> got an error saying that I do not have a module 'docutils'. Error
> message is shown below.
>
> abort: couldn't generate documentation: docutils module is missing
>
> by the way, 'make local' works just fine.

It is often a lot simpler and stable to just "make local" and create a 
symlink to the hg main program.

> Is there any way to skip
> above part in installation?

make install-home-bin

> Because I believe it requires 'root'
> access for docutils to be installed on the server, and I have no
> permission to do so.

I'm sure it can be installed locally too, but it is probably not worth it.

/Mads


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