Mercurial on MacOS X

by Wolfram Saringer (2009-07-22)
last change: 2009-07-22

When installing Mercurial from source using 'make install' it copies its support files to the directory /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/
Running 'hg debuginstall' gives an error like this:
abort: couldn't find mercurial libraries in [...]

To correct this do the following:

sudo mv /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/hgext/ /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/
sudo mv /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial-1.3-py2.5.egg-info /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/
sudo mv /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mercurial/ /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/

'hg debuginstall' should now run fine.

2009/07/22:
Added link to Mercurial binaries for Mac. Version 1.3 is already present there.

Links:
Mercurial Binaries for Windows and Mac (http://mercurial.berkwood.com)