Compiling mercurial (hg) from source

Fedora Core 10 (FC10)

Required rpm (among others)
sudo rpm -ivh python-devel-2.5.2-1.fc10.i386.rpm

Download and extract mercurial source (this example is 1.5.2)

sudo make all
sudo make install
sudo python setup.py install

hg debuginstall -- will debug the ~/.hgrc settings

~/.hgrc
[ui]
username = matt
verbose = True

mkdir test
cd test
hg init
hg serve -d