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I am using CentOS 5.4 64 bit. Gui would be nice. I do not fear the command line or installing packages.

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Benjamin, Thank you for your answer. I tried rpm install of kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/tortoisehg/… and got these errors. Missing Dependency: mercurial >= 1.5 is needed by package tortoisehg-1.0.4-1.fc12.x86_64 (/tortoisehg-1.0.4-1.fc12.x86_64) Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.6 is needed by package tortoisehg-1.0.4-1.fc12.x86_64 (/tortoisehg-1.0.4-1.fc12.x86_64) Missing Dependency: mercurial < 1.6 is needed by package tortoisehg-1.0.4-1.fc12.x86_64 (/tortoisehg-1.0.4-1.fc12.x86_64) Thanks for your help. – Steve Jun 6 2010 at 3:39
I'll work some more on this and share my findings. – Steve Jun 6 2010 at 3:39
Hmm, looks like the version of Mercurial in the Fedora EPEL is comically outdated. I'm not familiar with Fedora/CentOS these days, but I can try to track down what the correct way to grab those packages is. – Benjamin Pollack♦ Jun 7 2010 at 1:06

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We unfortunately do not currently ship a pre-bundled Linux version of the client tools. However, with the exception of the converter, you can have the exact same GUI and extensions that we provide on Windows.

To do this:

  1. Get TortoiseHg. You should be able to use the Fedora RPMs on CentOS, I believe, which will automatically pull in the relevant dependencies and install the Nautilus shell integration.
  2. In Kiln, go to Resources -> Kiln Client and Tools, grab the extensions you want, and follow instructions for installing them manually.
  3. If you want to install the extensions globally, you can place them anywhere in your Python path, and you should be good to go.

One reason we haven't yet taken the time to bundle this as RPMs/debs/etc. is because no one's asked for them. If you have a pet Linux version, let us know what it is so we can see how feasible it is to maintain packages for that platform.

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IMHO I think it's more feasible than you might expect. An RPM that works with recent versions of RHEL/CentOS, and a .deb package that targets the latest Ubuntu LTS release would probably satisfy the majority of users. This is the strategy that lots of other commercial vendors also take. – Garen Mar 13 at 17:08

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