Trying to import a patch [abort: patch command failed: exited with status 127]

[Kevin Bullock]

On 25 Jun 2009, at 10:55 AM, Unmesh Mayekar wrote:

> newbie to Hg. Tried importing a patch - get the following error  
> (running on debian)
>
> debian:/var/www# hg import ~unmesh/patches/20090625_rev1.patch
> applying /home/unmesh/patches/20090625_rev1.patch
> sh: patch: command not found
> abort: patch command failed: exited with status 127


# apt-get install patch

Mercurial appears to depend on the external 'patch' program to import  
a patch (as I read the error message). If you want a complete  
development environment, you may also want to install the 'build- 
essential' package. It depends on a bunch of other packages to get you  
a compiler, make, -dev versions of core libraries, etc.

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Kevin R. Bullock