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Asked: 2026-05-25T20:39:51+00:00

I am thinking about installing Mercurial and TortoiseHG for our redhat linux server. I

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I am thinking about installing Mercurial and TortoiseHG for our redhat linux server. I found out there are many package versions. I searched online and found out some people encounter incompatible problems when they install Mercurial and TortoiseHG. If anyone has successfully install TortoiseHG and Mercurial, may I know what versions you used for TortoiseHG and Mercurial ?

I used command “cat /etc/redhat-release” to find the version of my linux is”
Red Hat ENterprise Linux CLient release 5.3 (Tikarga) and the bits number is “x86_64”. Python is version 2.4.3. I do not need to use the latest version as long as they are stable and compatible.

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  1. Editorial Team

    TortoiseHG is mainly known for being a Windows shell extention, but there also seems to be a Linux version.

    Take a look at the description on the web site (I made the important parts bold):

    TortoiseHg is a Windows shell extension and a series of applications for the Mercurial distributed revision control system. It also includes a Gnome/Nautilus extension and a CLI wrapper application so the TortoiseHg tools can be used on non-Windows platforms.

    and:

    Supported Platforms

    Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7
    Command line support via thg
    Mac OS X port via source install
    Gnome/Nautilus integration

    Note the link in the second part.
    Plus, there are non-Windows versions on the download page.

    There is also this section in the release notes which describes which TortoiseHG version should be used with which Mercurial version if you have to install from source (which seems to be the case whan you’re using Linux, as I understood it).

    EDIT:

    Sorry, but I have absolutely no clue about Linux, so I can’t help you about the installation. What I can tell you is that msi files are usually Windows installer files.
    As I said, I have no clue about Linux, but I can hardly imagine that you can get a Windows installer to work on Linux.

    Where exactly did you see the TortoiseHG packages? The Nautilus link I posted above doesn’t have any msi downloads (or I don’t see them). The only msi downloads that I can find are the Windows-only downloads on the download page.

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