How to checkout a repository using Mercurial (hg) in Mac OS X

Question

I am trying to download a sample project of CorePlot from:

http://code.google.com/p/core-plot/source/checkout

There, they have mentioned below command to execute for getting a legal copy:

hg clone https://core-plot.googlecode.com/hg/ core-plot 

But My Mac OS X terminal says that there is no command called hg.

What should I do?

Solution

You need to install Mercurial.

Comments

[Telemachus]

See the link on this page of that site under GUI and IDE access. That link will lead you to a page with different versions of Mercurial for various operating systems: code.google.com/p/core-plot/source/checkout

[John T]

Have you tried installing with sudo?

[John T]

Run the command sudo port install mercurial

[John T]

If it can't find the port command, something is wrong with your installation of Macports.

[pisfire]

I have installed fink, Mac ports & Python successfully but I am still not able to execute the command mentioned in question. (hg clone).

[John T]

Where is the port binary located? Type which port and if a path to it isn't displayed, you'll need to add it's location to your path.