How to Install Mercurial on FreeBSD Latest

This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Mercurial on FreeBSD Latest. Mercurial is a distributed version control system used to manage code repositories.

Prerequisites

Installation Steps

Step 1: Update the FreeBSD packages

Use the following command to update the FreeBSD package database:

sudo pkg update 

Step 2: Install Mercurial with the following command:

sudo pkg install -y mercurial 

Step 3: Verify Mercurial Installation

After the installation process is completed, let's verify whether the Mercurial installation was successful or not.

hg --version 

You should see the Mercurial version number installed on your system with this command. If you see the version number, that means you have successfully installed Mercurial on your FreeBSD Latest system.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we covered the basic steps to install Mercurial on a FreeBSD Latest system. Mercurial is a powerful tool that can help you manage code repositories more efficiently, and it is widely used by developers.

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