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How to install Bazaar version control

Follow these simple steps to get you up and running with Canonical's collaborative version control system bzr, or Bazaar on Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10.

Bazaar (or bzr) is a version control system developed by Canonical, the makers of the Ubuntu Linux operating system. It's becoming really popular with developers as it includes some nifty features to aid collaborative working and it's also among the easiest version control systems to use.

Step 1: Install Bazaar

On Ubuntu you can install Bazaar via a PPA repository. To get this set up, you'll find need to edit your sources.list APT configuration file with the command sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and then add the following two lines at the bottom to tell APT to look for the repositories on the Launchpad site. Replace the word karmic with the name of the Ubuntu release you're running.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

Now you'll need to add the GPG keys to APT for this repository, as they're signed for security reasons. You can do this by entering the following command.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8C6C1EFD

This should imported the key and add it to your trusted keys file. You'll now need to run sudo apt-get update to ensure that your APT repositories are updated with the new PPA and then install the Bazaar application and some tools via the following command:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install bzr bzr-tools bzr-gtk