How to Install Subversion (SVN) 1.8.19 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5

    RahulBy 2 Mins ReadUpdated:

    Thanks to WANdisco, which is maintaining the rpm packages for latest Subversion version. This article will help you to install Subversion 1.8.19 (SVN Client) on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 Systems. If you want to configure Subversion server visit this article.

    Step 1 – Setup Yum Repository

    Firstly we need to configure yum repository on our system. Create a new repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/wandisco-svn.repo and add following content as per your operating system version.

    vim /etc/yum.repos.d/wandisco-svn.repo

    [WandiscoSVN]
name=Wandisco SVN Repo
baseurl=http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/$releasever/svn-1.8/RPMS/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

    Step 2 – Install Subversion Package

    Before installing latest package remove existing subversion packages from system to remove the conflict.

    yum remove subversion*

    Now install latest available Subversion package using yum command line package manager utility.

    yum clean all
yum install subversion

    Step 3 – Verify SVN Version

    At this stage, you have successfully install Subversion client on your system. Let’s use the following command to verify the version of svn client.

    svn --version

svn, version 1.8.19 (r1800620)
   compiled Aug 11 2017, 09:34:52 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu

Copyright (C) 2017 The Apache Software Foundation.
This software consists of contributions made by many people;
see the NOTICE file for more information.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* 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
* ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using serf.
  - using serf 1.3.7
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme

    References:
    1. http://opensource.wandisco.com/

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    21 Comments

    1. legionar on

      I tried, but it did not work for me:

      –> Finished Dependency Resolution
      Error: Package: subversion-1.8.19-1.x86_64 (WandiscoSVN)
      Requires: apr >= 1.2.7
      Error: Package: serf-1.3.7-1.x86_64 (WandiscoSVN)
      Requires: libapr-1.so.0()(64bit)
      Error: Package: serf-1.3.7-1.x86_64 (WandiscoSVN)
      Requires: libaprutil-1.so.0()(64bit)
      Error: Package: subversion-1.8.19-1.x86_64 (WandiscoSVN)
      Requires: libaprutil-1.so.0()(64bit)
      Error: Package: subversion-1.8.19-1.x86_64 (WandiscoSVN)
      Requires: libapr-1.so.0()(64bit)
      Error: Package: subversion-1.8.19-1.x86_64 (WandiscoSVN)
      Requires: apr-util >= 1.2.7
      You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
      You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest

      Reply
    2. Uday on

      Is SVN 1.6.12 compatible with RHEL7 as we are upgrading the Linux servers from RedHat5 to 7.
      Please let me know the possibilities and dependencies.

      Reply
    4. Margaret on

      I am working on an upgrade from subversion 1.6 to 1.8.15. The reason for not going to the latest version, is that the file format of 1.8.15 is still compatible with 1.6. I have the subversion 1.8.15 installed on a new server and transferred the repositories from the current production server to this new server. Then I tried to issue the command ‘svn cleanup’ in the directoy subv_repos where the repositories stored, I got the error
      ‘/subv_repos’ is not a working copy directory
      can anyone advise? thanks.

      Reply
    6. Bar on

      Hi,

      after installing subversion, successfully, I am trying to install mod_dav_svn and getting:

      Error: Package: apr-util-pgsql-1.5.3-2.WANdisco.8.x86_64 (WandiscoSVN)
      Requires: libpq.so.4()(64bit)

      any help would be very appreciated

      Reply
    7. magicsign on

      When I try to install subversion I get the following :

      yum install subversion
      Setting up Install Process
      : [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 6 – “Couldn’t resolve host ‘opensource.wandisco.com'”
      Trying other mirror.
      Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: WandiscoSVN. Please verify its path and try again

      Anyone had the same issue ?

      Reply
      • john on

        Seems like your network is unable access the wandisco host. Are you behind a firewall?
        If you are behind a firewall try to open the access to the wandisco host. If not possible do the manual setup like download the binaries subversion,httpd, svn-dav-module and compile them manually. It is pretty easy you can google for the setup process for each binary.

        Reply
      • Mark on

        For anybody else looking the reason for this is the server identifying itself as 6Server (or 7Server in my case), but the mirror only has the version number 6 or 7. I changed the repo configuration entry for mine to this:

        baseurl=http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/7/svn-1.8/RPMS/$basearch/

        Reply
    9. Waseem Sindhu on

      Thanks, I spent almost 4 hours trying other suggestions and then came across this, I guess all will be working fine but now I’ll need to test the installation.

      Reply
    11. Martin Plascencia on

      Hey! Thank you very much!

      You saved me. I was trying to upgrade Subversion for a few days with no luck. And the thing was getting annoying because my SVN client was not able to commit to an outdated Subversion server.

      I really appreciate it.

      Reply
    12. ferdy on

      I can’t install subversion according to your howto. A dependency could’nt be satisfied:

      [[email protected] /]# cat /etc/centos-release
      CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
      [[email protected] /]#

      Resolving Dependencies
      –> Running transaction check
      —> Package subversion.x86_64 0:1.8.11-1 will be installed
      –> Processing Dependency: apr-util >= 1.2.7 for package: subversion-1.8.11-1.x86_64
      –> Processing Dependency: apr >= 1.2.7 for package: subversion-1.8.11-1.x86_64
      –> Processing Dependency: libapr-1.so.0()(64bit) for package: subversion-1.8.11-1.x86_64
      –> Processing Dependency: libaprutil-1.so.0()(64bit) for package: subversion-1.8.11-1.x86_64
      –> Processing Dependency: libserf-1.so.0()(64bit) for package: subversion-1.8.11-1.x86_64
      –> Running transaction check
      —> Package apr.x86_64 0:1.4.8-3.el7 will be installed
      —> Package apr-util.x86_64 0:1.5.2-6.el7 will be installed
      —> Package subversion.x86_64 0:1.8.11-1 will be installed
      –> Processing Dependency: libserf-1.so.0()(64bit) for package: subversion-1.8.11-1.x86_64
      –> Finished Dependency Resolution
      Error: Package: subversion-1.8.11-1.x86_64 (WandiscoSVN)
      Requires: libserf-1.so.0()(64bit)
      You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem
      You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest

      Reply
    14. Keith on

      You should also exclude the older versions of subversion in the CentOS base yum repo by adding

      exclude=subversion*

      to your base.repo file under /etc/yum.repos.d.

      Reply

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