Problems starting mercurial in Debian (sarge)

[shadebug]

Right, so I've been trying to get my tv carde working on sarge (stable booting from the 2.6 kernel image) and had nothing but grief. I've been trying to get the drivers and frontends from linuxtv but they've switched from CVS to mercurial and the legacy CVS trees don't seem to have my driver (cinergy t2).

So I tried downloading the mercurial.deb but the debian website's been down, so i enabled the "testing" repository on synaptics and installed it like that. I then couldn't find the newly installed software so I tried whereis mercurial and found it under /usr/share/mercurial/.

Problem is that it won't load, instead I get this
shadebug@shadebug:/usr/share/mercurial$ ./hgk
Error in startup script: invalid command name "panedwindow"
while executing
"panedwindow .ctop -orient vertical"
(procedure "makewindow" line 27)
invoked from within
"makewindow"
(file "./hgk" line 3647)


Any thoughts as to where I might've gone wrong or even a better way of installing what I need would bemuch appreciated

[Syngin]

Hmm, murcurial is available under apt on my testing boxes but I've never used it before:

syngin:/root# apt-cache search mercurial
commit-tool - GUI commit tool for various Source Control Management systems
mercurial - Scalable distributed version control system
tailor - migrate changesets between version control systems
syngin:/root#

Could be a dependency issue maybe? You could try contacting the package maintainer for Debian.

syngin:/root# apt-cache showpkg mercurial
Package: mercurial
Versions:
0.7-8(/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.yorku.ca_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages)

Reverse Depends:
tailor,mercurial
commit-tool,mercurial 0.7-4
Dependencies:
0.7-8 - libc6 (2 2.3.5-1) python (2 2.3) python (3 2.4) meld (0 (null)) commit-tool (0 (null)) kdiff3 (16 (null)) tkdiff (16 (null)) rcs (0 (null)) tk8.4 (16 (null)) wish (0 (null))
Provides:
0.7-8 -
Reverse Provides:
syngin:/root#

[shadebug]

thanks, this is my first debian style distro and I'm pretty much lost. Looks like half of those dependencies were missing or outdated, with any luck installing them should do the job

[shadebug]

wahey, that problem is fixed, unfortunately, now when I try to start it up it says

shadebug@shadebug:/usr/share/mercurial$ ./hgk
Error in startup script: abort: no repo found!
while executing
"exec hg tags"
(procedure "readrefs" line 4)
invoked from within
"readrefs"
(file "./hgk" line 3648)


I'm going to try rebooting, see if that does something