Monday, November 9, 2009

Upgrade subversion to 1.6 in Debian 5 (lenny)

The default subversion package for Debian is svn 1.5 and that doesn't have the feature that allows an externals property to reference a single file (can only reference a directory) so I needed to upgrade to 1.6. Here's how you do it:

Log on as root (su)
Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

Run the following commands:

apt-get update
aptitude -t lenny-backports install subversion


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