How to upgrade Mercurial client in CentOS6?

Question

I have Mercurial 1.4 in my CentOS6, but I need to use the Eclipse plug-in, which uses at least Mercurial 1.5. How to upgrade version of Mercurial in CentOS6?

Setting up Install Process Package mercurial-1.4-3.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version Nothing to do 

When I try to download a new RPM (mercurial-1.9-1.el6.rfx.x86_64.rpm) and install it, I got this error:

 emacs-mercurial-1.4-3.el6.x86_64 requires hg = 1.4-3.el6 

What should I do?

Any clues?

Best wishes,

Answer 1

For the same purpose, I successfully updated my hg on CentOS to version 2.1.2, downloading the correct speed here:

http://pkgs.repoforge.org/mercurial/

and setting it with yum ...

considers

Answer 2

You can install from the source, just follow the instructions here .

Answer 3

Just run this, trying to get hg-git to work in my CentOS 6 environment.

In 2015, there are RPMs and / or yum repositions from the official download page.

FWIW - for hg-git I still had to install pp (the package in epel is quite old and did not work).