How to install Mercurial on OEL 5.2

Question

I'm trying to install Mercurial 1.4.2 on OEL 5.2. OEL public repository does not know Mercurial:
$ uname -a
Linux oracle.localdomain 2.6.18-92.el5 #1 SMP Fri May 23 22:17:30 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/public-yum-el5.repo
[el5_ga_base]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever GA - $basearch - base
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/0/base/$basearch/
gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_u1_base]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever U1 - $basearch - base
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/1/base/$basearch/
gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_u2_base]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever U2 - $basearch - base
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/2/base/$basearch/
gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
[el5_u3_base]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever U3 - $basearch - base
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/3/base/$basearch/
gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_u4_base]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever U4 - $basearch - base
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/4/base/$basearch/
gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_addons]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - addons
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/addons/$basearch/
gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
[el5_oracle_addons]
name=Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - oracle_addons
baseurl=http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL5/oracle_addons/$basearch/
gpgkey=http://public-yum.oracle.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle-el5
gpgcheck=1
enabled=0
yum install mercurial-1.4.2
Loading "security" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package mercurial-1.4.2 available.
Nothing to do
[root@oracle mercurial-1.4.2]# yum install mercurial
Loading "security" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package mercurial available.
Nothing to doIf I try to install manually Mercurial 1.4.2 using source tar ball I get:
$ python -V
Python 2.4.3
$ python setup.py install --force
running install
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'mercurial.base85' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.4 -c mercurial/base85.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.4/mercurial/base85.o
mercurial/base85.c:12:20: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
mercurial/base85.c: In function 'b85prep':
mercurial/base85.c:23: warning: implicit declaration of function 'memset'
mercurial/base85.c:23: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'memset'
mercurial/base85.c: At top level:
mercurial/base85.c:28: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
mercurial/base85.c:76: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '*' token
mercurial/base85.c:141: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'methods'
mercurial/base85.c:150: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'initbase85'
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1It seems that Mercurial requires python-dev package but I cannot find python-dev 2.4.3 package with YUM or even on www.python.org ???
Does anyone know how to install Mercurial on OEL 5.2 ?

Answer 1

I've been able to install Mercurial 1.3.1:
[root@lx01 yum.repos.d]# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
warning: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.p44eby: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:epel-release           ########################################### [100%]
[root@lx01 yum.repos.d]# ls -al
total 40
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jan 26 20:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 95 root root 12288 Jan 26 20:31 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   954 Apr 25  2008 epel.repo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1054 Apr 25  2008 epel-testing.repo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1633 Jan 20 21:39 public-yum-el5.repo
[root@lx01 yum.repos.d]# vi epel.repo
[root@lx01 yum.repos.d]# yum install mercurial
Loading "security" plugin
epel                      100% |=========================| 3.4 kB    00:00
a7c94f4b4202938b3c40f4453 100% |=========================| 2.3 MB    00:09
el5_u2_base               100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package mercurial.i386 0:1.3.1-3.el5 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Installing:
mercurial               i386       1.3.1-3.el5      epel              2.1 M
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      1 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       0 Package(s)
Total download size: 2.1 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): mercurial-1.3.1-3. 100% |=========================| 2.1 MB    00:10
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6
Importing GPG key 0x217521F6 "Fedora EPEL <[email protected]>" from /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing: mercurial                    ######################### [1/1]
Installed: mercurial.i386 0:1.3.1-3.el5
Complete!Thanks.