How to Install and Configure Subversion 1.8.11 on CentOS/RHEL

SVN – Subversion is a versioning and revision control system used by developers to track and keep up earlier versions of their source codes. If you want to configure Subversion server visit this article

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In this article we can see how to setup svn server on centos.

Step 1: Setup Repository

To install SVN 1.8.11 Firstly we need to configure yum repository in our system. Create a new repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/wandisco-svn.repo and add following content as per your operating system version.

For CentOS/RHEL 7 Users:
[WandiscoSVN]
name=Wandisco SVN Repo
baseurl=http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/7/svn-1.8/RPMS/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

For CentOS/RHEL 6 Users:
[WandiscoSVN]
name=Wandisco SVN Repo
baseurl=http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/6/svn-1.8/RPMS/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

For CentOS/RHEL 5 Users:
[WandiscoSVN]
name=Wandisco SVN Repo
baseurl=http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/5/svn-1.8/RPMS/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Step 2: Install Subversion Package

After adding WandiscoSVN repository, install subversion (svn client) using following command:

# yum clean all
# yum install subversion

Note: In case If you get any conflict error then first remove old subversion package.

# yum remove subversion

Step 3: Verify Subversion Version

After successfully installation of subversion, Lets verify the version using following command:

svn --version

"svn, version 1.8.11 (r1643975)
   compiled Jan 30 2015, 13:21:57 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu

Copyright (C) 2014 The Apache Software Foundation.
This software consists of contributions made by many people;
see the NOTICE file for more information.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - with Cyrus SASL authentication
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme
* ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using serf.
  - using serf 1.3.7
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme

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