Installing the Subversion client

Downloading the latest version

Download the latest Subversion package at http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html

If you are on Mac OSX, get an installer here: http://metissian.com/projects/macosx/subversion/. With this installer your can skip the next step.

Building the Subversion client

Once you have got the download, the following will put client binaries in ~/packages/subversion/bin. This can be handy if your hosting provider does not provide you with it.

 $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/packages/subversion --disable-shared
 $ make 
 $ make test
 $ sudo make install

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