Section 3.6. Summary

3.6. Summary

You should now have a clear idea of how to go about installing Subversion on your system. The number of potential system configurations on which Subversion can actually be installed is way beyond the capability of this book, but this chapter covered most of the basics, which should serve as a starting point if your particular system is in some way different. The chapter covered basic compiling and installing of Subversion on a typical Linux system, as well as installation on Microsoft Windows and Apple's Macintosh OS X. The last couple of sections in the chapter covered setting up a server for remote access to an SVN repository through WebDav, via Apache, and the standalone svnserve server.

In the next chapter, I will introduce the actual mechanics of a Subversion system, by walking through usage of the system, from creation of your first repository to operation of the basic client tools.