Steps to setup enviroment and start running tests

Note: To make things easyer you can run $sudo su in the Terminal you use so that all commands are run in admin mode and you do not need to add sudo befoare each command but make sure you are carefull with what you run in the terminal as admin mode will allow you to make changes to core file system

Install Java and kDiff
Install Mercurial
Setup Mercurial
Clone sources twice
Install Android SDK and NDK
Build sources using .mozconfig files
Package the mobile build and install
Run tests

Detailed steps

Install Java and kDiff

kDiff3 is a merge tool that can verify the differences between the source codes allowing the user to download only the code that is different when updating the source files
The easiest way to install them is from the Ubuntu Software Manager

Install Mercurial

Here is a link to the detailed information about Installing and setting up mercurial
To install Mercurial run in a Terminal the following commands:

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential
sudo easy_install -U mercurial

Configuring Mercurial and downloading souces

All content of the configuration is general. Please update field where needed to work with your configuration

Mercurial configuration

Create the file .hgrc in your home directory – you can use $ sudo gedit and save the file with the name .hgrc
Add in $HOME/.hgrc

[ui]
username = Your Real Name <user@example.com>
merge = your-merge-program (or internal:merge)

[diff]
git = 1
showfunc = 1
unified = 8

[defaults]
commit = -v

Configure kDiff as merge tool

Setting kDiff as the merge tool for Mercuial
Add in .hgrc

[merge-tools]
kdiff3.args=--auto -L1 base --L2 local --L3 other $base $local $other -o $output
kdiff3.regkey=Software\KDiff3
kdiff3.regappend=\kdiff3.exe
kdiff3.fixeol=True
kdiff3.gui=True

Configure mq

Add in .hgrc

[extensions]
mq =

[defaults]
qnew = -U

[mq]
plain = True

Configure repository

Add in .hgrc

[paths]
try = ssh://hg.mozilla.org/try/

Download sources using Mercurial

Replace <src> with desired directory
Clone the sources twice: 1 for the mobile build and one for the automation build

hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ <src>

Update sources

run command in the source directory

hg pull -u

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