Overview

Although Subversion is an Open Source project, you don't need to download the source code and build it. Instead you can simply download one of the binary builds, which is a much simpler process.

Installing Subversion on Linux

To install Subversion on Debian-based Linux, execute:

sudo apt-get install subversion

Other distributions of Linux are likely to have a similar Subversion package available through their respective package managers as well.

Installing Subversion on other platforms

You can download Subversion binaries from

• Subversion web site

Choose the one appropriate for your platform.

On Windows, we suggest using either the Tigris.org Apache 2.2 binary build, or the graphical TortoiseSVN client. If you use command line svn, add the bin subdirectory to your PATH environment variable; e.g.:

C:\Program Files\svn-win32-1.6.0\bin

Once set, new Command Prompts will recognize "svn" as a valid command.