Mercurial is a distributed version control system that is designed to handle large projects efficiently. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Mercurial on Debian Latest.
Before you begin this tutorial, you should have access to a Debian Latest system with administrative privileges.
Before installing any software on your system, it is recommended that you update the system to ensure that you have the latest security updates and bug fixes. To do this, run the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
To install Mercurial on your Debian Latest system, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install mercurial
This will download and install the latest version of Mercurial from the default Debian repositories.
To verify that Mercurial has been installed correctly, run the following command:
hg version
This should display the version information for Mercurial, indicating that it has been installed correctly.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Mercurial on a Debian Latest system. Mercurial is now ready to be used to manage your projects.
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