Installation SVN on Ubuntu

Installation on Ubuntu

You can install from our PPA, our tarball archive, or directly from our Subversion repository. Users new to Ubuntu should use the PPA option.

Adding the PPA

Karmic and later

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rabbitvcs/ppa

Hardy, Intrepid and Jaunty

Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file (signing key=1024R/34EF4A35):

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rabbitvcs/ppa/ubuntu **DISTRIBUTION** main

Installing RabbitVCS

Update your software package repositories with:

sudo apt-get update

And install it with:

sudo apt-get install rabbitvcs-core rabbitvcs-nautilus rabbitvcs-thunar rabbitvcs-gedit rabbitvcs-cli

From the Tarball

Installing from our distributed tarball is relatively straightforward on Ubuntu. First, make sure you install all dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python-nautilus python-configobj python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-svn python-dbus python-dulwich subversion meld

Then download the tarball and from the top folder type:

sudo python setup.py install

Once that is done working, look in the clients folder and read the README file for each client/plugin to learn how they are installed.

From our Subversion Repository

Installing from trunk or from a branch is relatively straight-forward. First, install the dependencies listed above, then follow our