No hg (Mercurial) for RedHat Linux!!

mt

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Jan 12, 2010, 2:15:43 PM1/12/10

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Hi,

I could not find hg package for RedHat linux? Is there any alternative
way to get around this?

Thanks,
mt

Russ Cox

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Jan 12, 2010, 2:20:54 PM1/12/10

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If you install python-setuptools you should be able
to do easy_install mercurial.

Russ

Ian Lance Taylor

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Jan 12, 2010, 2:21:57 PM1/12/10

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mt <almur...@gmail.com> writes:

> I could not find hg package for RedHat linux? Is there any alternative
> way to get around this?

The RPM for hg is named "mercurial".

You should consider using easy_install instead if you have that. Or
see http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Download .

Ian

Ed Marshall

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Jan 12, 2010, 2:22:32 PM1/12/10

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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:15 PM, mt <almur...@gmail.com> wrote:

I could not find hg package for RedHat linux? Is there any alternative
way to get around this?

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/mercurial/

--
Ed Marshall <e...@logic.net>
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mt

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Jan 12, 2010, 2:47:24 PM1/12/10

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Thanks for your prompt replies. Now I got the hg installed.

I don't know what the cause of the following problem:

$ hg clone -r release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ $GOROOT
destination directory: hg
abort: error: Name or service not known

Any idea?

Dean Prichard

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Jan 12, 2010, 3:34:39 PM1/12/10

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can you ping go.googlecode.com?

are you behind a proxy server?

mt

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Jan 12, 2010, 5:49:25 PM1/12/10

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yes, i am behind a firewall and cannot ping go.googlecode.com.

I disabled firewall by executing the following commads:

/etc/init.d/iptables save
/etc/init.d/iptables stop

but I still cannot ping that address!

any I can do to get that working?

Thanks

Dean Prichard

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Jan 12, 2010, 5:58:50 PM1/12/10

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maybe a dns problem? can you nslookup go.googlecode.com

mt

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Jan 12, 2010, 6:49:32 PM1/12/10

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my linux box doesn't have nslookup installed. just wasted too much
time on trying to install nslookup but couldn't go anywhere. is there
another check that we can do other than nslookup?

Thanks

Dean Prichard

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Jan 12, 2010, 6:56:46 PM1/12/10

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host or dig

mt

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Jan 12, 2010, 7:00:08 PM1/12/10

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Nope. none worked :(

mt

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Jan 12, 2010, 10:31:08 PM1/12/10

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so when i execute the following command (as root this time):

hg clone -r release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ $GOROOT

i only get:

destination directory: hg
abort: destination 'hg' already exists

Does this mean hg has been installed? if so,

this next step fails:

$ cd $GOROOT/src
-bash: cd: /src: No such file or directory

Thanks

Andrew Gerrand

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Jan 12, 2010, 10:36:25 PM1/12/10

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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:31 PM, mt <almur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hg clone -r release https://go.googlecode.com/hg/ $GOROOT

> destination directory: hg
> abort: destination 'hg' already exists

> $ cd $GOROOT/src

> -bash: cd: /src: No such file or directory

These errors would indicate that $GOROOT environment variable is not
defined in your shell.

Have you followed the instructions in the 'Environment Variables'
section of the 'Install' document?
http://golang.org/doc/install.html#tmp_17

Of particular note is the final step:

env | grep '^GO'

If, after entering the above command, you do not see the three
environment variables (GOROOT, GOARCH, and GOOS) with the correct
values then you must remedy that first.

Please follow the instructions on the above page carefully and let us
know if you have further issues.

Andrew

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