How to Install and Uninstall mercurial Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 16,2025

You can also install and uninstall the mercurial on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "mercurial" package

Please follow the steps below to install mercurial on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                mercurial
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "mercurial" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall mercurial on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mercurial package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mercurial
Version: 6.3.2-1
Installed-Size: 1049
Maintainer: Debian Python Team
Architecture: amd64
Provides: python3-mercurial
Depends: mercurial-common (= 6.3.2-1), ucf (>= 2.0020), python3 (<< 3.12), python3 (>= 3.11~), python3:any, libc6 (>= 2.34)
Recommends: openssh-client
Suggests: kdiff3 | kdiff3-qt | kompare | meld | tkcvs | mgdiff, qct
Breaks: hgsubversion (<= 1.9.3+git20190419+6a6ce-3), hgview-common, mercurial-crecord (<< 0.20151121-2~), mercurial-git (<= 0.8.12-1.2), mercurial-keyring (<= 1.3.0-1), mercurial-server, python-sphinx-patchqueue, qct, trac-mercurial
Description: easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system
Description-md5: 01f62ef3bd1477c40a17577e8dcc5e14
Homepage: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/
Tag: devel::rcs, implemented-in::python, interface::commandline,
interface::web, network::client, network::server, protocol::http,
protocol::ssh, protocol::tcp, role::program, scope::application,
use::storing, use::synchronizing, works-with::software:source,
works-with::vcs
Section: vcs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mercurial/mercurial_6.3.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 335132
MD5sum: 095eef4d1996260f9a08ceabce4866dd
SHA256: 1221b239f13873b452d58c15f6af2ea2c5435d36cc394e1657fc90f1fe1e299f