hg-ssh command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix hg-ssh command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

hg-ssh: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hg-ssh: command not found

In Ubuntu hg-ssh is provided by mercurial-common package.

mercurial-common is:

Mercurial is a fast, lightweight Source Control Management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

This package contains the architecture independent components of Mercurial, and is generally useless without the mercurial package.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install mercurial-common

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install mercurial-common.

sudo apt -y install mercurial-common

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install mercurial-common

In this tutorial we learn how to fix hg-ssh command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.