By default the sshd service is not installed in the debian distrubution used on the Raspberry PI. For most uses this isn’t really necessary but if you are intending to use the pi without a screen then you need some way to get into it over the network.
All you need to do is to install ssh & tell debian to run it on boot:
sudo apt-get install ssh sudo update-rc.d ssh defaults
Now, as long as you know the IP address (or you give it a static one) then you can now ssh into it.
Ah I just hit an interesting problem with Mercurial. I had a repository which had been created with a recent version however I had to restore it from a backup onto another machine however I couldn’t commit to it as it’s format wasn’t supported:
$ hg st
abort: requirement ‘dotencode’ not supported!
The reason is that the dotencode format was only introduced into mercurial in version 1.7 so if you’re running an earlier version then you’ll get this error. Ok so upgrade – problem is that according to apt I had the latest version – 1.6.3 – erm nope thats not the latest.
Thankfully the fix is simple, all you need is to ass the correct repository first before installing the latest version
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mercurial-ppa/releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mercurial
Once you’ve done that then you’ll find mercurial will work again as expected.
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