I am kind of new to both, Mercurial and Ubuntu.
I seem to have awkwardly installed a few other software packages already, so I wanted to see how others would go about doing this.
Should I use the apt-get command? If so, how would I use it in this case? Where is the best place to install Mercurial on my file system, and how do I make it part of my shell (I am thinking svn-ish) so I can properly check things in and update?
Thanks, Alex
Just use:
sudo apt-get install mercurial
It should install it in the default folder and update your environment variables correctly. then you should be able to use 'hg' from the command line, just like svn, although Hg is a much better source control tool.