How To Install mercurial-hgk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-hgk.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mercurial-hgk.x86_64 is Hgk interface for mercurial

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-hgk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mercurial-hgk.x86_64`

A Mercurial extension for displaying the change history graphically using Tcl/Tk. Displays branches and merges in an easily understandable way and shows diffs for each revision. Based on gitk for the git SCM. Adds the “hg view” command. See http documentation.

We can use yum to install mercurial-hgk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mercurial-hgk.x86_64.

Install mercurial-hgk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mercurial-hgk.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mercurial-hgk.x86_64

How To Uninstall mercurial-hgk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mercurial-hgk.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mercurial-hgk.x86_64

mercurial-hgk.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/hgk.rc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/hgext/hgk.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/hgext/hgk.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/hgext/hgk.pyo
/usr/libexec/mercurial
/usr/libexec/mercurial/hgk

References

mercurial-hgk.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mercurial-hgk.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.