Unable to install tortoisehg on Linux RHEL 7.4

Question

I'm a long-time user of tortoisehg own Windows 7, but new to RedHat Linux. I have python 2.7.5 installed on my Linux RHEL 7.4 virtual machine. I installed hg (version 4.0-rc) by following these directions: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/Download#Linux_.28.rpm.29 (I had to change 'baseurl=https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/centos$releasever' to 'baseurl=https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/centos7')

Then I downloaded and installed tortoisehg-4.2.2-1.fc27.noarch.rpm from: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/tortoisehg/4.2.2/1.fc27/noarch/tortoisehg-4.2.2-1.fc27.noarch.rpm

And tortoisehg-nautilus-4.2.2-1.fc27.noarch.rpm from: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/tortoisehg/4.2.2/1.fc27/noarch/tortoisehg-nautilus-4.2.2-1.fc27.noarch.rpm

hg seems to work, but when I try to start thg, I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/thg", line 97, in sys.exit(tortoisehg.hgqt.run.dispatch(argv)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 152, in getattribute self._load() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 100, in _load mod = _hgextimport(_import, head, globals, locals, None, level) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 53, in _hgextimport return importfunc(name, globals, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tortoisehg/hgqt/run.py", line 400, in _('repository root directory or symbolic path name')), File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tortoisehg/util/i18n.py", line 76, in agettext return hglib.fromunicode(u) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 152, in getattribute self._load() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 100, in _load mod = _hgextimport(_import, head, globals, locals, None, level) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial/demandimport.py", line 53, in _hgextimport return importfunc(name, globals, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/tortoisehg/util/hglib.py", line 592, in loadui = uimod.ui.load AttributeError: type object 'ui' has no attribute 'load'

I have no idea how to proceed. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Answer 1

Thanks to Yuya N. at Unable to install thg on RHEL 7.4 Linux I was able to get thg working. The problem was the the major.minor versions of hg and and tortoisehg must match. I uninstalled tortoisehg-4.2.2-1 and installed tortoisehg-4.0.1 and thg now works.