Thursday, April 12, 2012

Installing Mercurial on Mac OSX 10.5.8

Most of the builds of source version control system Mercurial are for Mac OS 10.6 and above, but with a bit of internet searching I was able to find a system with a GUI that works on Mac OS 10.5.

  1. Download a 10.5 compatible install of Mercurial.
    1. Go to: http://mercurial.berkwood.com/
    2. Search the page for the text "10.5"
    3. Download the install package for the most recent version of Mercurial that says it is 10.5 compatible. For me that was 2.0.2.
    4. Install the package.
  2. Download and install Murky a GUI for Mercurial.
    1. Go to: https://bitbucket.org/snej/murky/wiki/Home
    2. Download the latest release.
    3. Copy the application into your applications folder.
    4. Add the application to your dock.
  3. Run Murky and create a local clone of an open source project you want to work with.

No comments:

Post a Comment