Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Mercurial from the official website on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before we start installing Mercurial, we need to make sure our system is up-to-date by running the following command:
sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade
This command will update the package list and upgrade all outdated packages.
To install Mercurial on Alpine Linux, we can use the apk package manager. However, Mercurial requires some dependencies to be installed first. Run the following command to install the dependencies:
sudo apk add python3-dev py3-setuptools py3-cffi py3-docutils
These dependencies will be required for building and installing Mercurial.
Now that we have installed the dependencies, we can proceed to download and install Mercurial. Run the following commands to download and install Mercurial:
wget https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/mercurial-5.9.3.tar.gz
tar xzf mercurial-5.9.3.tar.gz
cd mercurial-5.9.3
sudo python3 setup.py install
The above commands will download the Mercurial source code, extract it, and install it on your system.
To verify that Mercurial has been installed correctly, run the following command:
hg version
This command will display the version of Mercurial that has been installed on your system.
Congratulations! You have now installed Mercurial on Alpine Linux Latest.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Mercurial on Alpine Linux Latest. We recommend that you keep your Mercurial installation up-to-date by regularly checking for new releases and updating your system accordingly.
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