Installing SVN ??

[TreeBoy]

On Saturday 01 Oct 2005 11:40, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I decided to go the SVN route, and I am now slowly and carefully
> reading this nice book: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/
> that some of you pointed me to.
>
> Problem: the book gives practical examples to give you hands on
> experience of how to use it, great :-)
> So, on page 32, they invite you to type the following at the command
> line:
>
> $ svn checkout http://svn.example.com/repos/calc
>
>
> but, it doesn't work :o(
> I searched in synaptic (with universe and multiverse enabled) for "svn",
> and it found 23 packages. The only one that seemed relevant, was in
> main, and called "libsvn0", so I installed that, hoping for the best.
> But of course it installed only libraries, not any command line tool :o(
> I looked at the other 22 packages but none of them clearly describe
> themselves as "I AM SVN, YOU NEED ME IF YOU WANT TO TYPE SVN COMMANDS IN
> THE TERMINAL".
> Sorry for shouting ;-)
>
> I can't believe that Ubuntu doesn't come with all that's necessary, so
> please someone, tell me what package I need to install in order to be
> able to use the svn commands, and start my training using the book :-/
>
> Thanks much in advance :o)
>
>
> --
> Vince

svn is short for subversion

The package is called subversion.


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