howto install subversion on bluehost

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i have finally taken the time to get subversion installed and running on my bluehost account. what follows are the steps i took. these steps assume that you have ssh access and your account is on a 64-bit server.

ssh into your account and create a directory to store all of the sources:

mkdir src
cd src

next download the sources for subversion:

wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.2.tar.bz2
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.2.tar.bz2

untar and extract the sources:

tar -xjvf subversion-1.5.2.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf subversion-deps-1.5.2.tar.bz2

lets start with getting the dependencies configured, built and then installed:

cd subversion-1.5.2
cd apr
./configure –enable-shared –prefix=$HOME
make
make install

cd ../apr-util
./configure –enable-shared –prefix=$HOME –with-expat=builtin –with-apr=$HOME –without-berkeley-db
make
make install

cd ../neon
export EXTRA_CFLAGS=”-L/usr/lib64 -fPIC”
export CFLAGS=”-L/usr/lib64 -fPIC”
./configure –enable-shared –prefix=$HOME –with-libs=$HOME
make
make install

now configure, build and install subversion:

cd ..
./configure –prefix=$HOME –with-apr=$HOME –with-apr-util=$HOME –with-neon=$HOME \
–without-berkeley-db –without-apxs –without-apache –without-serf
make
make install

now edit your .bash_profile in the $HOME directory and replace:

PATH=$PATH

with:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

and save the file. now either “source .bash_profile” or logout and then back in.

verify subversion is working:

svn –version

and should see something similar to:

svn, version 1.5.2 (r32768)
compiled Sep 7 2008, 11:55:08

Copyright (C) 2000-2008 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
– handles ‘http’ scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
– with Cyrus SASL authentication
– handles ‘svn’ scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
– handles ‘file’ scheme

the following sites helped get everything installed, unfortunately none of them worked out of the box for me: site 1, site 2, site 3

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  4. Dear Leagobuff,

    Thank you very much for your post, it has been very useful to install subversion, however, I have problems in the last step:

    ”
    now edit your .bash_profile in the $HOME directory and replace:

    PATH=$PATH
    with:

    PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
    and save the file. now either “source .bash_profile” or logout and then back in.
    ”

    My “.bash_profile” file had already the “PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin”, and when I’m trying to check subversion with: “svn –version” I’m having the next sentence:
    “-bash: svn: command not found”

    Please, could you help me?
    Thank you.

    Best Regards,
    RBC

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      • Dear Leagobuff,

        I´m using BuTTY….

        1st step
        [~]# cd ~/bin

        2nd step
        [~/bin]# Is svn

        answer:
        -bash: Is: command not found

        BTW
        In the bin directoy there are the next files
        apr-1-config* apu-1-config* neon-config*

        I´m sorry I´m new using the BuTTY console.

        Any suggestion?
        Thanks

        Best Regards,
        RBC

      • Jamie or Raul,

        I’m having the same issue. .bin_profile already has Path=$Path:$Home/bin and then svn –version returns command not found. and ls svn returns no such file or directory.

        How did you solve this issue?

      • Chris,

        Based upon what your question says w/ bin being in your profile; –version saying command not found; and ls reporting that the file doesn’t exist… this leads me to believe that svn was not installed in the bin directory in the first place… Can you check the src directories and see if you can locate the compiled binaries.

        Let me know what you fin and I’ll try to help out.

    • Make sure you are in your home directory and then make a hard link to the svn file (which is also a hard link…)
      ln src/subversion-1.5.2/subversion/svn/svn bin/svn

      Of course, use the same version as the one you installed.

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  7. Many, many thanks for this. I used these instructions last November for subversion v1.5.4, and again yesterday for v1.6.2 (dug back into my Delicious saved bookmarks). Worked great twice!

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  12. Just got this to work on Hostmonster with Subversion 1.6.6 just by changing the version #’s in the download. Thanks!

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  19. For those of you having issues returning the version, it is possible this changed in the newer versions of subversion.

    A quick look at “svn help” shows that you need TWO dashes.

    svn –version

    CHEERS!

    Now onto my issue, Everything installed, and version returns, now how do I access this remotely? Merely using the domain it lives on fails with this error.

    OPTIONS of ‘http://www.hodgedev.com': 200 OK (http://www.hodgedev.com)

    THANKS!

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  21. Anyone else get this “redefinition of struct” error?

    [~/src/subversion-1.5.2]# make
    /bin/sh /home5/pineriv1/src/subversion-1.5.2/libtool –tag=CC –silent –mode=compile gcc -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/home5/pineriv1/include/apr-1 -I/home5/pineriv1/include/apr-1 -L/usr/lib64 -fPIC -g -O2 -pthread -L/usr/lib64 -fPIC -I/usr/include/httpd -I./subversion/include -I./subversion -I/home5/pineriv1/include/neon -I/home5/pineriv1/include/apr-1 -I/home5/pineriv1/include/apr-1 -I/usr/local/include -o subversion/mod_dav_svn/activity.lo -c /home5/pineriv1/src/subversion-1.5.2/subversion/mod_dav_svn/activity.c
    In file included from /usr/include/httpd/apr_file_io.h:29,
    from /usr/include/httpd/apr_network_io.h:26,
    from /usr/include/httpd/httpd.h:53,
    from /home5/pineriv1/src/subversion-1.5.2/subversion/mod_dav_svn/activity.c:23:
    /usr/include/httpd/apr_file_info.h:192: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘apr_ino_t__requires__apr_file_info_h’
    In file included from /usr/include/httpd/apr_file_io.h:34,
    from /usr/include/httpd/apr_network_io.h:26,
    from /usr/include/httpd/httpd.h:53,
    from /home5/pineriv1/src/subversion-1.5.2/subversion/mod_dav_svn/activity.c:23:
    /usr/include/httpd/apr_want.h:95: error: redefinition of ‘struct iovec’
    make: *** [subversion/mod_dav_svn/activity.lo] Error 1

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