How to Install Mercurial in CentOS 7

Mercurial is an open-source distributed source control management tool. It is not available in CentOS default repositories and epel-release repository. However, it is possible to add it as a 'yum' package repository and get automatic updates. The procedure to do so is the following:

• Create a new file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ by issuing the following command:

$ sudo touch mercurial.repo

• Add the following contents into newly created 'mercurial.repo' file:

[mercurial]

name=Mercurial packages for CentOS7

# baseurl

baseurl=https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/centos$releasever

skip_if_unavailable=True 

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

• Verify that the new repository is recognized by yum with the below command. You should be able to see the newly configured repository in the listed repositories.

$ yum repolist

•  Install the latest version of Mercurial by issuing the following command:

$ sudo yum install mercurial

Enjoy using the latest version of Mercurial on your CentOS7 machine.