The official debian packages for Subversion are kind of old; the latest version is 1.1. There is a more recent package available in the 'unstable' package source, but I'd rather just stay with the stable packages, because switching to unstable requires me to update a few hundred packes; and I'd just rather not..
To install on debian, perform the following steps:
- Download the subversion packages from the subversion site.
- Run (as root):
This will install all the libraries you need to build subversion (among a few other packages to make a debian package out of it).- apt-get build-dep subversion libsvn0 libapache2-svn
- Next, unpack the subversion files with:
- tar xfvz subversion-???
- Next cd into the directory where the files were unpacked
- Run the regular:
- ./configure
- make
- make install
- You are done!
