[JIRA] (JENKINS-15385) Mercurial auto-installer does not work

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cowwoc created JENKINS-15385 Mercurial auto-installer does not work Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: current Assignee: Kohsuke Kawaguchi Components: mercurial Created: 03/Oct/12 2:30 AM Description: I created a Mercurial instance under the global configuration. I then enabled "install automatically". I then configured a job to use this Mercurial instance on an Ubuntu slave node. When I run the job, it fails with: $ /usr/bin/hg clone --rev default --noupdate https://host.com/hg/gstreamer-android/ /home/builds/.jenkins/workspace/GStreamer_Android_snapshot ERROR: Failed to clone https://host.com/hg/gstreamer-android/ because hg could not be found; check that you've properly configured your Mercurial installation ERROR: Failed to clone https://host.com/hg/gstreamer-android/ Sure enough, /usr/bin/hg does not exist yet the tool auto-installer is not kicking in. The Mercurial auto-installer has two sub-options: Extract .zip/.tar.gz Run command I don't know how where to get the Mercurial binaries for Ubuntu in *.zip or *.tar.gz form (the sources are posted online, but not the binaries). As for "run command" I know "sudo apt-get install mercurial" will work but this requires root access and I cannot grant Jenkins root access, for security reasons. Please explain how this is supposed to work. Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding how to configure this? Project: Jenkins Priority: Major Reporter: cowwoc

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