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HOWTO

# Mercurial 2.1.1
# ===============
# Prerequisites:
# Python 2.4 - 2.7
# python-docutils

cd
test -f installed/mercurial-2.1.1.tar.gz &&
mv installed/mercurial-2.1.1.tar.gz .
test ! -f mercurial-2.1.1.tar.gz &&
wget http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-2.1.1.tar.gz

# Verify tarball w/ sha1sum:
echo "d6cc4b649b6705113732e62756788542897ba008 \
mercurial-2.1.1.tar.gz" | sha1sum -c

mkdir -p -m 0700 src
cd src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "mercurial-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/mercurial-2.1.1.tar.gz
cd mercurial-2.1.1
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# I was getting this error trying 'make all':
# docutils: ImportError: No module named roman
# no luck Googling around, so I just ran 'make build' to skip the docs
# and 'make install-bin' instead of the regular install.

# Build it
make all

# Become root to install it
su

# Remove the Slackware version, if there is one
test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg mercurial

# Install it
make install

# Make sure it's not broken
hg version

# Make sure your non-root user can remove the source later
chown -R $USER .
chmod -R u+w .

# Become your non-root user again
exit

cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/mercurial-*.tar.*
mv mercurial-2.1.1.tar.gz installed/