How to setup etckeeper with Mercurial in Ubuntu?

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Published on 2009-08-14T09:47:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 0:53 UTC
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Hi,

I'm interested in installing etckeeper with Mercurial in my Ubuntu system. My reason is that I don't know how to use Git and don't want to learn at the moment. If I check the package description it sounds promising:

kent@rat:~$ apt-cache search etckeeper
etckeeper - store /etc in git, mercurial, or bzr

I'm wondering how to continue on from here? I've tried Googling but I haven't found anything for the Ubuntu + etckeeper + Mercurial combination.

(If you know of a good tutorial for this situation, a link is an excellent answer. No need to re-iterate.)

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