如何在不使用“ yum”命令的情况下在我的Red Hat Linux机器上安装Mercurial？

Question

I have been trying to install Mercurial binary packages on my Red Hat Linux machine. According to the install instructions, I should type command "yum install mercurial". However, in order to use the "yum" command, I need to first register my system with RHN(Red Hat Network). I tried a couple of times but still failed to do so.

Beside waiting for Red Hat representatives to help me register, I am wondering if there is some way for me to use "yum" command without registering to the RHN. Or even better, can someone tell me how to install Mercurial without using "yum" command ? I have used only "install" command to install it but it didn't work. It is really frustrating~

Thank you very much,

Answer 1

I've installed last Mercurial version on my CentOS 6.2 x64 from RPMForge, since the "base" repository contain very old Mercurial package only:

a) Install RPMForge repository

wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

b) The default RPMforge repository does not replace any CentOS base packages (In our case - very old Mercurial from base repository). In the past it used to, but those packages are now in a separate repository (rpmforge-extras) which is disabled by default. So, I forced to use rpmforge-extras for installation

In this case will installed "mercurial-ssh" itself and "mercurial" by dependency

yum --enablerepo=rpmforge-extras install mercurial-ssh

You can install "mercurial" package only

yum --enablerepo=rpmforge-extras install mercurial

Answer 2

After you download mercurial from its website :
Right-click on the icon (in your downloads folder), and under properties click the box that says "make executable" or something similar. Then double-click on it, and it should install...