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

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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22 Comments

mrdvt92 on December 27, 2022 5:22 pm
To update CentOS 7 I had to run `yum shell` since the subversion-lib rpm is not separated out in the wandisco repo.
This works fine.
“`
$ wget http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/7/svn-1.8/RPMS/x86_64/subversion-1.8.19-1.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo yum shell
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, getpagespeed, langpacks
> erase subversion-libs
> update ./subversion-1.8.19-1.x86_64.rpm
> run
legionar on October 2, 2019 6:18 am
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
Uday on October 12, 2017 7:44 am
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.
Pradeep on July 31, 2017 4:49 pm
Please provide steps to configure the subversion 1.8.x.
Margaret on July 8, 2016 10:31 pm
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.
JosemarSilva on June 2, 2016 8:57 pm
It works!
Bar on April 22, 2016 5:37 pm
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
magicsign on January 26, 2016 2:39 pm
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 ?
- john on February 2, 2016 5:37 pm
  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.
- Mark on March 8, 2016 3:15 pm
  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/
Oscar on October 30, 2015 4:04 pm
Gracias!! funciono perfecto!
Waseem Sindhu on October 22, 2015 12:18 pm
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.
Spidey on September 14, 2015 9:51 pm
Thanks for the tutorial. I installed it on an Oracle Linux 6.6 machine without any problems.
Martin Plascencia on May 13, 2015 12:31 am
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.
ferdy on April 20, 2015 1:01 pm
I can’t install subversion according to your howto. A dependency could’nt be satisfied:
[root@cbf35f68a44e /]# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)
[root@cbf35f68a44e /]#
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
- Rahul on April 21, 2015 2:59 am
  Hi Ferdy,
  Please enable EPEL repo on your system and try to install again.
  http://tecadmin.net/install-epel-and-remi-repository-on-centos-and-redhat/
  - Hmf on August 14, 2015 3:23 pm
    Enabling EPEL did not help. Still the same error as ferdy on my RHEL7.
Marc on April 17, 2015 8:14 am
Thanks, that helped. So simple.
Keith on March 20, 2015 1:49 am
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.
Martin on December 4, 2014 1:00 pm
Thank you! At last, a method that works!!
Rade on December 2, 2014 10:15 am
Excellent guide. Thanks!
Mat on December 1, 2014 3:28 pm
Thanks ! It was helpfull for me, I couldn’t find a way to install the latest version of SVN on Centos 5.3.