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I installed Mercurial, only to realize that it's not supported yet with MonoDevelop, and then realized that I have no clue how to properly uninstall it.

I've googled around and can't find anything to support uninstalling it.

Federico klez Culloca
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Driss Zouak
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MonoDevelop's support for version control is lagging, and only basic support for Git will be added in version 2.6. I would suggest keeping Hg installed and use the command line. You shouldn't dismiss using a great DVCS just because your IDE doesn't integrate with it.

Since Hg is Python based, you may be able to use easy_install to uninstall it for you.

easy_install -m mercurial

See easy_install documentation for more information

Steve
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    Actually this didn't seem to work, though the command seemed to be successful mercurial was still there. However, I thought about your comments and decided to keep it. I already had downloaded MacHg and so far, so good. – Driss Zouak Feb 25 '11 at 19:56
  • I have the same problem here. Did you find a solution ? – Vincent Cantin Mar 22 '12 at 20:58
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You can uninstall mercurial by deleting the executable, but this seems to be the only way to fix the problem. The executable is in /usr/local/bin or in usr/local/bin/hg (I'm not quite sure), but deleting the executable (and all related files) is a dirty, but working, way to uninstall mercurial.

Nimantha
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JXPheonix
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I did:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/hg # To remove my local version (yours may be elsewhere)
sudo pip uninstall mercurial # To remove mercurial from my Python

Pip is not install by default so I guess you can use:

easy_install -m mercurial # Like Steve suggests

This recipe works well for me.

Pierre Thibault
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I had luck following the suggestion of this post on the mercurial listserv:

Launch again the mpkg you used for the installation, go to the second window (Read me or something similar) and check the "After the install" section.

On Mac OS X 10.6, the text is: This package installs the hg executable in /usr/local/bin and the Mercurial files in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/mercurial.

I can imagine you have to replace 2.6 by 2.7 on Mac OS X 10.7.

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chb
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Though totally forgotten how I installed it, the following did the work for me.

sudo rm -fr /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial*
IsaacS
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Open Terminal and type this command.

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean false;killall Finder
shahin ali agharia
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Why not simply use the prompt or a 3rd party gui for mercurial? This is usually preferred over IDE Integration for speed/reliability anyways.

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