1.1 --- a/en/tour-basic.tex	Sun Jun 17 11:21:32 2007 -0700
     1.2 +++ b/en/tour-basic.tex	Fri Jul 13 12:10:22 2007 -0700
     1.3 @@ -43,11 +43,15 @@
     1.4      yum install mercurial
     1.5    \end{codesample4}
     1.6  
     1.7 -\item[Ubuntu] Ubuntu's Mercurial package is particularly old, and you
     1.8 -  should not use it.  If you know how, you can rebuild and install the
     1.9 -  Debian package.  It's probably easier to build Mercurial from source
    1.10 -  and simply run that; see section~\ref{sec:srcinstall:unixlike} for
    1.11 -  details.
    1.12 +\item[Ubuntu] Ubuntu's Mercurial package is based on Debian's.  To
    1.13 +  install it, run the following command.
    1.14 +  \begin{codesample4}
    1.15 +    apt-get install mercurial
    1.16 +  \end{codesample4}
    1.17 +  The Ubuntu package for Mercurial tends to lag behind the Debian
    1.18 +  version by a considerable time margin (at the time of writing, seven
    1.19 +  months), which in some cases will mean that on Ubuntu, you may run
    1.20 +  into problems that have since been fixed in the Debian package.
    1.21  \end{itemize}
    1.22  
    1.23  \subsection{Mac OS X}