impossible to install mercurial?

[Mads Kiilerich]

kc0olm at gmail.com wrote, On 04/05/2009 03:25 PM:
> I've tried install Mercurial several times, using different methods - 
> all fail for some reason, even though the installers complete 
> successfully. Immediately after both installs, when I ran the command 
> hg, I got an error that there were no headers called linux.commands. I 
> had read that I needed to install the headers, but could find nowhere 
> that showed me how to install those.
>
> I can't use apt-get, because I am not using Debian. I have both Yum 
> and the RHN.
>
> But the headers error "went away". Now, when I run hg, I get:
>
> [root at kameronclinux mercurial-1.2.1]# hg
> abort: couldn't find mercurial libraries in [/usr/local/bin 
> /usr/lib/python24.zip /usr/lib/python2.4 
> /usr/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2 /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk 
> /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages 
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Numeric 
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0]
> (check your install and PYTHONPATH)

What platform are you using?

Exactly how have you tried to install, and exactly how did it fail in 
the different cases?

/Mads
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