Installing Mercurial 1.5.4 on Ubuntu 10.04
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Solution 1
From the line:
mercurial/base85.c:12:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
it seems that you don't have the development tools for python. Solve with:
sudo apt-get install python-dev
Solution 2
You don't have to build Mercurial by hand to get the newest version on Ubuntu. There is a PPA repository at https://launchpad.net/~mercurial-ppa/+archive/releases
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mercurial-ppa/releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mercurial
By the way. There is also a PPA for TortoiseHG which offers a nice integration of Mercurial functionality in Nautilus: https://launchpad.net/~tortoisehg-ppa/+archive/releases
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tortoisehg-ppa/releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tortoisehg-nautilus
Solution 3
You need to install gettext for msgfmt:
apt-get install gettext
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Updated on September 17, 2022Comments
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gvkv almost 2 years
I've downloaded the source and tried to install via the README instructions:
sudo make install
but I get the following errors:
python setup.py build running build running build_mo warning: hgbuildmo: could not find msgfmt executable, no translations will be built running build_py running build_ext building 'mercurial.base85' extension gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c mercurial/base85.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/mercurial/base85.o mercurial/base85.c:12:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory mercurial/base85.c: In function ‘b85prep’: mercurial/base85.c:23: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘memset’ mercurial/base85.c:23: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘memset’ mercurial/base85.c: At top level: mercurial/base85.c:28: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token mercurial/base85.c:76: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token mercurial/base85.c:147: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘methods’ mercurial/base85.c:156: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘initbase85’ error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 make: *** [build] Error 1
Keep in mind that I know I can install using:
sudo apt-get install mercurial
but that gets me an older version (1.4.3-1).
So, what's going on?