How to install Subversion on a shared Server

Installation Instructions

These instructions assume basic proficiency with the Unix command line. Note that the goal is to install the SVN client, plan on hosting your repositories somewhere else.

Connect to your account with ssh and create a working directory, mine’s called _src:

cd
mkdir _src
cd _src

get http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.6.tar.gz
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.4.6.tar.gz

tar -xzvf subversion-1.4.6.tar.gz
tar -xzvf subversion-deps-1.4.6.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.4.6

One step, maybe (32-bit?)

At this point, depending on your server configuration, you might be able to install with the following two commands:

./configure –prefix=$HOME –without-berkeley-db \
–with-ssl –with-editor=/usr/bin/vim \
–without-apxs –without-apache
make && make install