Mercurial plugin for Eclipse can't find Python--how to fix?

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I'm on Mac OS X 10.7.1 (Lion). I just downloaded a fresh copy of Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers, and installed the Mercurial plugin. I get the following error message:

abort: couldn't find mercurial libraries in [...assorted Python directories...].

I do have Python 2.6.1 and 3.2.1 installed. I also have a directory System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7, which is on the list of places it looked for the Mercurial libraries. hg -y debuginstall gives me the same message.

What are these libraries named, where is Eclipse likely to have put them when I installed the plugin, and how do I tell Eclipse where they are (or where should I move them to)?

Thanks, Dave

Full error message follows:

abort: couldn't find mercurial libraries in [/usr/platlib/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages /usr/local/bin /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7 /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/PyObjC /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages] (check your install and PYTHONPATH)

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2 Answers

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Nobody answered me, but I figured out the answer. Maybe it will help someone.

I finally realized that since 'hg -y debuginstall' at the command line was giving me the same error message, it wasn't an Eclipse problem at all (duh). Reinstalling a newer version of Mercurial solved the problem.

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I had two installation of mercurial in mac. One was installed directly and another using macport. Removing the direct installation solved the problem.

  1. Remove the direct installation using easy_install -m mercurial

  2. Update "Mercurial Executable" path to "/opt/local/bin/hg" Eclipse->Preference->Team->Mercurial->

  3. Restart eclipse