Correct way to install Mercurial on Ubuntu

Question

I am kind of new to both, Mercurial and Ubuntu.

I seem to have awkwardly installed a few other software packages already, so I wanted to see how others would go about do

Answer 1

Mercurial is available from the Universe repositories. Enable that repository in USC if it's not already enabled. Then just type the following into a terminal.

sudo apt-get install mercurial

The configuration file is saved in /etc/mercurial/hgrc You can configure mercurial by editing that file. To open that file in gedit type the following command

sudo gksudo gedit /etc/mercurial/hgrc