Chapter 3. Installing Subversion

The purpose of this chapter is to show you how to install and set up Subversion. Subversion runs on a variety of operating systems and distributions, and to describe all of the idiosyncrasies of installing on all of those systems would take a book of its own. Instead, I will describe how to install Subversion on a couple of typical systems, with some advice on things to look out for when doing your own install. When you are done with this chapter, you should have enough of an understanding of the installation process to be able to perform your own install. If you already have Subversion up and running, you can skip ahead to Chapter 4, "Basic Subversion Usage."