tortoisehg4ubuntu

tortoisehg for Ubuntu 20.04.

Ubuntu packages to test are available in the "Releases" section.

The latest 5.9.1 package is self-contained and does not need additional steps.

sudo apt install ./tortoisehg_5.9.1-glaure_amd64.deb

Note: You may have to remove a current mercurial installation. This package only works with mercurial 5.9.1. The dependency is automatically resolved by pypi/pip during the installation.

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Inspired by:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1232173/how-to-install-the-tortoisehg-in-ubuntu20-04

Previous Information

Instructions

Install all necessary build prerequisites

sudo ./bootstrap.sh

Build thg (tortoisehg)

./build.sh

Manual Instructions

If you have trust issues to run the script as root, refer to the manual installation steps:

I do not have a working package or snap. But using these instructions, it is rather easy to get tortoisehg working from source.

Check that python --version returns a Python 3 interpreter. If not, you have to change the symlink /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python3.

OK:

$ python --version
Python 3.8.2

Not OK:

$ python --version
Python 2.7.18rc1

Change the symlink:

$ sudo rm /usr/bin/python
$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

pip3 is needed to fulfill all the build dependencies.

sudo apt install python3-pip build-essential

Change into thg directory.

cd thg

Install PyQt5.

pip3 install pyqt5

Install mercurial.

pip3 install mercurial==5.4

Install Qscintilla.

pip3 install qscintilla
sudo apt install pyqt5.qsci-dev
sudo apt install python3-pyqt5.qsci

Clone tortoisehg repository.

hg clone https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg/thg
hg revert -r 5.4.2 --all

Lets build tortoisehg for inplace usage.

make local

Start tortoisehg.

./thg

I got tortoisehg working on multiple different Ubuntu 20.04 installations using this recipe.