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Phantom Mercurial, How to remove?

I'm trying to install TortoiseHg on Ubuntu 14.04. It went fine, but trying to open it complains about having an unsuported Mercurial version (3.4.1). I removed via:

  • sudo apt-get remove mercurial
  • sudo apt-get purge mercurial
  • sudo dpkg -r mercurial
  • sudo dpkg --purge mercurial

It comes out as successful, but if I try:

hg --version

I get:

Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 3.4.1)
(see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information)

Copyright (C) 2005-2015 Matt Mackall and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Any other ideas? TortoiseHG needs 3.1.x or 3.0.x.

Solution

  • You can find out where in your path an application exists using the type command like this (when using bash):

    ry4an@four:~$ type -a hg
hg is /usr/local/bin/hg

    It's possible it was installed as a python package in which case the command would be:

    pip uninstall mercurial

    but it might just be easier/safer to install a version that is supported somewhere that comes earlier in your path so Tortoise find that one.