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Chris Cannam, 2011-03-14 03:42 PM

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h1. Installing EasyMercurial
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h2. Windows
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*Download the latest EasyMercurial installer release* from the "download page":/projects/easyhg/files.
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The current release is always highlighted in bold on that page.  You just need the file whose name ends in @Setup.exe@.
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The installer includes the Mercurial executable and the KDiff3 diff/merge application (thanks to bundling mechanisms from the TortoiseHg project).  Just install and run.
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h2. Mac OS/X
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First *download Mercurial itself* from the "Mercurial website":http://mercurial.selenic.com/ and install that.
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Then *download the current EasyMercurial @.dmg@ file* from our "download page":/projects/easyhg/files.
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The current release is always highlighted in bold on that page.
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*Note*: Although the EasyMercurial distribution is a three-way universal binary for OS/X 10.4 and newer, 10.4 users will need to build their own Mercurial from source since recent enough versions are no longer distributed for that platform.
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h2. Linux
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A 32-bit Linux binary is available which will run on most current Linux distributions -- including 64-bit ones with a suitable compatibility layer.  Proper distribution packages are still pending.
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First install the prerequisites using your distribution's package manager.  These are Mercurial itself, the Qt4 and PyQt4 toolkits, and KDiff3.  In Ubuntu the packages you need are: @mercurial@ @libqtgui4@ @python-qt4@ @kdiff3@.
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Then *download the current EasyMercurial Linux binary @.tar.gz@ file* from the "download page":/projects/easyhg/files.
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The current release is always highlighted in bold on that page.  You just need the file whose name ends in @linux-i386.tar.gz@.
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Unpack that file into a suitable place, and run the @EasyMercurial@ program from it.