This post details my recent install of Subversion 1.2.1 on Debian Stable. The Debian packaged version of Subversion is currently only 1.1.4, but I wanted to install the latest version as it supports full WebDAV autoversioning & has the FSFS repository back end as the default.
I wanted to access Subversion via the WebDAV protocol, this requires Apache2. As Debian Stable only recently included the apache2 package, I had to update to that version first.
Note: all these commands were run as the
Install Apache2:
That installs the web server and all the required packages, it does not start Apache by default, you need to edit
When you build Subversion from source, it requires the apxs2 tool to be able to build and install the Subversion extension modules. This is hidden away in the apache2-threaded-dev package, it's not available in any other package:
Now we need to download, build and install Subversion. Download Subversion 1.2.1 and save it in
Unpack Subversion:
We now need to ensure that all build dependencies are taken care of, plus let the build scripts know where the apxs2 tool is located (it's in a non-standard place with Debian):
Build Subversion:
Run the unit tests to ensure that the built version is a valid release (note: this can take quite a while - well at least it does on my poor Celeron Linux server!):
Install the Subversion binaries and libraries to the correct places:
OK, that's Subversion installed, but it's not available yet, we still need to config access to it via Apache, and create the initial code repository. Please see my next post on how to do this...
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I wanted to access Subversion via the WebDAV protocol, this requires Apache2. As Debian Stable only recently included the apache2 package, I had to update to that version first.
Note: all these commands were run as the
root user.Install Apache2:
apt-get install apache2That installs the web server and all the required packages, it does not start Apache by default, you need to edit
/etc/default/apache2 and change NO_START to 0, then run /etc/init.d/apache2 start to get the basic web server running.When you build Subversion from source, it requires the apxs2 tool to be able to build and install the Subversion extension modules. This is hidden away in the apache2-threaded-dev package, it's not available in any other package:
apt-get install apache2-threaded-devNow we need to download, build and install Subversion. Download Subversion 1.2.1 and save it in
/usr/local/srcUnpack Subversion:
tar zxvf subversion-1.2.1.tar.gzcd subversion-1.2.1We now need to ensure that all build dependencies are taken care of, plus let the build scripts know where the apxs2 tool is located (it's in a non-standard place with Debian):
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs2Build Subversion:
makeRun the unit tests to ensure that the built version is a valid release (note: this can take quite a while - well at least it does on my poor Celeron Linux server!):
make checkInstall the Subversion binaries and libraries to the correct places:
make installOK, that's Subversion installed, but it's not available yet, we still need to config access to it via Apache, and create the initial code repository. Please see my next post on how to do this...
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Comments
I found the post on subversion very useful. Keep up the good work.
Rajan
apt-get install subversion
I've just check now and the Debian Stable release is still at 1.1.4 where as the latest one is 1.4.0!
Some notes:
- I noticed that "make" complains that I didn't have python installed. you should probably mention that as a dependency.
- I tried to install SVN 1.4.0 and 1.4.2 on a brand new stable copy of Debian Sarge and it failed because the Apache Portable Runtime is too old (0.9.6) when 0.9.7 is required.
- Installing SVN 1.3.2 worked just fine.
iqbal...