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Installing Subversion on the Ubuntu server with Tortoise WinXP Client

7th August 2009

Installing Subversion on the Ubuntu server with Tortoise WinXP Client

Used the how to at
http://www.subversionary.org/howto/setting-up-a-subversion-server-on-ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-server

Use apt-get: (you might have to prefix your commands with sudo)

apt-get update
apt-get install subversion

Creating a Repository for 1framework5

cd /var
mkdir svn
svnadmin create /var/svn/1framework5

Adding the svn user and the login user, <myuser>

adduser svn
useradd <myuser>:svn
passwd <myuser

mkdir /home/<myuser>
chown -R /home/<myuser>

mkdir /var/svn/1framework5/classfiles
chown -R <myuser>:svn /var/svn/1framework5/classfiles

Test the install on the server

svn co svn+ssh://<myuser>@<my machine>/var/svn/1framework5/classfiles 

Then used Tortoise SVN on WinXP.

Created a new directory
G:/data/1framework5
Right click on directory and selected ' SVN Checkout ..'
Logged in with

svn+ssh://<myuser>@<my machine>/var/svn/1framework5/classfiles

Then could commit/update as needed