Subversion Installation

Prior to subversion-1.4.5 installation the following dependencies must be set up and installed:

  • Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 (sles 10)
  • Apache 2.2
  • Autoconf
  • Open ldap dev
  • Neon 0.25.5
    • neon-0.25.5-7.1.i586.rpm
    • neon-devel-0.25.5-7.1.i586.rpm

Download the subversion tar file you require (i.e. subversion-1.4.5.tar.gz) from: [[http://subversion.tigris.org/|Subversion]]
Extract the tar file into /tmp using the following command:

tar –xzvf suibversion-1.4.5.tar.gz

Change to root:

sudo su –

Change to the directory where the tar file was extracted:

/tmp/subversion-1.4.5

Issue each of the following commands:
(NOTE: the make check command takes a while & is not absolutely necessary)

./configure
make check
make install