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A short explanation on how to use Mercurial to keep up-to-date with the latest
development version of mcabber. More info on Mercurial can be found on
<http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/>.

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# Download

First, clone the Mercurial reporitory:

    % hg clone http://mcabber.com/hg/ mcabber-hg

# Prepare

Go into the `mcabber` directory, and build the `configure` script (you will need
the _autotools_ software installed):

    % cd mcabber-hg/mcabber
    % ./autogen.sh

Now you can use the configure script, as usual. You can use `--enable-hgcset` to
add the Mercurial changeset to mcabber's version string.

    % ./configure --enable-hgcset

If you want to install in your own home-directory instead of system-wide, append
`--prefix=$HOME`:

    % ./configure --enable-hgcset --prefix=$HOME

# Compile

To compile the source code, run:

    % make

And to install it (you will probably need to be root to do this if you are doing
a system-wide installation):

    % make install

# Update

If you want to update mcabber source code later, just pull from the repository,
update and compile again:

    % hg pull -u
    % make
    % make install