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changeset 262:6a847f7902a7
Update description of Ubuntu package.
author | Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> |
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date | Fri Jul 13 12:10:22 2007 -0700 (2007-07-13) |
parents | a24b370a16ee |
children | 9dbed77d3ba6 |
files | en/tour-basic.tex |
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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}