Quick Tutorial: Installing Subversion on Linux

This tutorial explains how users with no root access can install Subversion onto a shared Linux server.

System specs:

• Linux 2.6.22 or higher
• Subversion 1.4.5
• Apache Portable Runtime (APR)
  • APR 0.9.17 - http://government-grants.org/mirrors/apache.org/apr/apr-0.9.17.tar.gz
  • APR-util 0.9.15 - http://government-grants.org/mirrors/apache.org/apr/apr-util-0.9.15.tar.gz
• neon - an HTTP and WebDAV client library - http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.25.5.tar.gz

Step by step installation guide:

1. Start by checking the Linux version of the host to which you’re going to install Subversion

   # uname -a
   Linux myhost.com 2.6.22-9_1.BHsmp #1 SMP Fri Sep 28
   23:36:16 MDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
   

2. Install neon

   # wget http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.25.5.tar.gz
   # tar -xzf neon-0.25.5.tar.gz
   # cd neon-0.25.5
   # ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=$HOME
   # make
   # make install
   

3. Install APR

   # wget http://government-grants.org/mirrors/apache.org/apr/apr-0.9.17.tar.gz
   # tar -xzf apr-0.9.17.tar.gz
   # cd apr-0.9.17
   #  ./configure --prefix=$HOME
   # make
   # make install
   

4. Install APR-util

   # wget http://government-grants.org/mirrors/apache.org/apr/apr-util-0.9.15.tar.gz
   # tar -xzf apr-util-0.9.15.tar.gz
   # cd apr-util-0.9.15
   # ./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-apr=$HOME
   # make
   # make install
   

5. Install Subversion

   # wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.5.tar.gz
   # tar -xzf subversion-1.4.5.tar.gz
   # cd subversion-1.4.5
   #./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-berkeley-db --with-zlib --with-ssl
   # make
   # make install
   

6. Verify installation

   username @jacoozi.com [~]# svn --version
   svn, version 1.4.5 (r25188) compiled Jan 18 2008, 12:24:06
   Copyright (C) 2000-2006 CollabNet.
   Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
   This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).
   The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
   * ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV) protocol.
     - handles 'http' scheme
   * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
     - handles 'svn' scheme
   * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
     - handles 'file' scheme