Install Mercurial and TortoiseHG on CentOS 6.5

Question

How to install Mercurial and TortoiseHG on CentOS 6.5?

This is not trivial, as there is no official RPM for this.
See procedure as a bash script below.

I hope this helps

Answer 1

This procedure is a joining of instructions from several locations.
Create a script with the content below and run it as root.

#!/bin/bash
# Installation of mercurial and TortoiseHG

APPS_BASE=/opt
HG_BIN=$APPS_BASE/bin
HG_REPOS=$APPS_BASE/repos

checkResult()
{
    if [ $1 -ne 0 ]
    then
        echo;echo ERROR: $2 failed;echo
        exit 1
    else
        echo;echo Action $2 OK;echo
    fi
}

######### Start here #########

echo;echo Adding epel-release repository
yum -y install http://ftp.uninett.no/linux/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
checkResult $? "yum install epel-release"

# Get more prereq packages
echo;echo Install some more packages needed
yum -y install PyQt4-devel python-devel python-iniparse gcc gettext
checkResult $? "yum install PyQt4-devel python-devel python-iniparse gcc gettext"

yum --enablerepo=epel -y install qscintilla-python python-keyring python-sphinx Django
checkResult $? "yum install qscintilla-python python-keyring python-sphinx Django"

# Install Mercurial from source to bootstrap
echo;echo Get and install Mercurial from source
mkdir $HG_BIN $HG_REPOS

cd $HG_REPOS
wget https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/mercurial-2.4.2.tar.gz
checkResult $? "wget for mercurial"

tar xzvf mercurial-2.4.2.tar.gz
cd mercurial-2.4.2/
make local
checkResult $? "make local for mercurial"

# Get a Mercurial clone, to stay up to date
echo;echo Get and install Mercurial stable
./hg clone https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg#stable ../hg
checkResult $? "hg clone https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg#stable"

cd ../hg
make local
checkResult $? "make local for mercurial stable"

echo;echo Create link for hg
cd $HG_BIN
ln -s $HG_REPOS/hg/hg .

# now get a TortoiseHg clone
echo;echo Get the TortoiseHG
cd $HG_REPOS
$HG_BIN/hg clone https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg thg
checkResult $? "hg clone https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg"

echo;echo Create links for thg
cd thg
ln -s ../hg/mercurial/
ln -s ../hg/hgext/
cd $HG_BIN
ln -s $HG_REPOS/thg/thg .

echo;echo Install kdiff3
yum -y install kdiff3
checkResult $? "yum install kdiff3"

# Cleanup
echo;echo Cleanup
rm -rf $HG_REPOS/mercurial-2.4.2/ $HG_REPOS/mercurial-2.4.2.tar.gz

echo;echo Add $HG_BIN to path
echo "export PATH=$HG_BIN:$PATH" >> /etc/profile

Once this is done, you will have two links

/opt/bin/hg - mercurial
/opt/bin/thg - tortoiseHg

Of course you can easily move things around as you see fit.

EDIT: If anyone has an idea on how to get the nautilus extensions working, please add here!
EDIT 2: (Contributed by @Will-I-am-davidon). Needed to install some more packages to get the thg working: yum install PyQt qscintilla qscintilla-python

Answer 2

Didnt work for me sorry !!! After having been spent 2 Hours finding the issue for "incorrect data format" I just removed checkSum() and everywhere below wrote ECHO

it worked for me 100%

THANKs =)

Answer 3

In my case i wanna update my production server with a project of my own hosted in BitBucket.org, so you try as i did with Installing on CentOS 6.3

Answer 4

As outlined in Mercurial Download, create /etc/yum.repos.d/mercurial.selenic.com.repo and paste in the following:

[mercurial.selenic.com]
name=mercurial.selenic.com
baseurl=https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/centos$releasever
enabled=1
# Temporary until we get a serious signing scheme in place,
# check https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Download again
gpgcheck=0

Then you can issue the command sudo yum install hg.