Advice on installing bzr-svn on Debian Stable

[John Szakmeister]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Gordon Tyler <gordon at doxxx.net> wrote:
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> On 3/21/2010 3:03 AM, Matt Doran wrote:
>> I tried installing the plugin into ~/.bazaar/plugins, but it has a
>> dependency on subvertpy.    I tried doing a manual install of subvertpy,
>> but when trying to build this I get errors like: "Exception: apr-config
>> not found. Please set APR_CONFIG environment variable".   I think I'm
>> starting to get out of my depth here. :(
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> APR is the Apache Portable Runtime. It's in Debian as libapr1 and you'll
> need libapr1-dev as well for compiling against it. I don't know if it's
> a sufficiently recent version.

It's not.  You also need the Subversion dev package too (sorry, I
don't know the actual name).

> Are you using "python setup.py install" to install subvertpy?

-John