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3 <appendix id="chap:srcinstall">
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4 <?dbhtml filename="installing-mercurial-from-source.html"?>
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5 <title>Installing Mercurial from source</title>
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6
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7 <sect1 id="sec:srcinstall:unixlike">
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8 <title>On a Unix-like system</title>
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10 <para id="x_5e0">If you are using a Unix-like system that has a sufficiently
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11 recent version of Python (2.3 or newer) available, it is easy to
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12 install Mercurial from source.</para>
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13 <orderedlist>
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14 <listitem><para id="x_5e1">Download a recent source tarball from <ulink
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15 url="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/download">http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/download</ulink>.</para>
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16 </listitem>
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17 <listitem><para id="x_5e2">Unpack the tarball:</para>
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18 <programlisting>gzip -dc mercurial-MYVERSION.tar.gz | tar xf -</programlisting>
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19 </listitem>
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20 <listitem><para id="x_5e3">Go into the source directory and run the
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21 installer script. This will build Mercurial and install it
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22 in your home directory.</para>
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23 <programlisting>cd mercurial-MYVERSION
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24 python setup.py install --force --home=$HOME</programlisting>
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25 </listitem>
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26 </orderedlist>
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27 <para id="x_5e4">Once the install finishes, Mercurial will be in the
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28 <literal>bin</literal> subdirectory of your home directory.
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29 Don't forget to make sure that this directory is present in your
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30 shell's search path.</para>
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31
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32 <para id="x_5e5">You will probably need to set the <envar>PYTHONPATH</envar>
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33 environment variable so that the Mercurial executable can find
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34 the rest of the Mercurial packages. For example, on my laptop,
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35 I have set it to <literal>/home/bos/lib/python</literal>. The
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36 exact path that you will need to use depends on how Python was
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37 built for your system, but should be easy to figure out. If
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38 you're uncertain, look through the output of the installer
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39 script above, and see where the contents of the
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40 <literal>mercurial</literal> directory were installed to.</para>
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41
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42 </sect1>
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43 <sect1>
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44 <title>On Windows</title>
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46 <para id="x_5e6">Building and installing Mercurial on Windows requires a
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47 variety of tools, a fair amount of technical knowledge, and
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48 considerable patience. I very much <emphasis>do not
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49 recommend</emphasis> this route if you are a <quote>casual
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50 user</quote>. Unless you intend to hack on Mercurial, I
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51 strongly suggest that you use a binary package instead.</para>
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52
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53 <para id="x_5e7">If you are intent on building Mercurial from source on
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54 Windows, follow the <quote>hard way</quote> directions on the
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55 Mercurial wiki at <ulink
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56 url="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WindowsInstall">http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WindowsInstall</ulink>,
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57 and expect the process to involve a lot of fiddly work.</para>
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58
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59 </sect1>
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60 </appendix>
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62 <!--
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63 local variables:
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64 sgml-parent-document: ("00book.xml" "book" "appendix")
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65 end:
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