Tutorial: Configuring Subversion 1.6.2 on Ubuntu 9.0.4 with Eclipse 3.4

Having a problem with SVN commands not working? Let me guess, you have:

• Ubuntu 9.0.4
• Eclipse 3.4
• Subclipse
• and you need to connect to a Subversion 1.6.2 repository
  

If you are using the latest Subclipse plugin to checkout your projects, it will be working as a SVN 1.6.x client. This means it will write 1.6.2 file structures to disk.

Now you want to use a command line to do SVN commands. That means you need the 1.6.x command line client. BUT, if you do a "sudo apt-get subversion" it currently gives you....wait for it....version 1.5.4 for you command line. And you cannot use a 1.5.x client on a branch that also uses a 1.6.x client.

So, you have to do the following workaround to get command line version 1.6.x

• Download the 1.6.2 RPM from http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/subversion/redhat.html
• sudo apt-get install alien
• sudo alien CollabNetSubversion-client-1.6.2-1.i386.rpm
• sudo dpkg -i collabnetsubversion-client_1.6.2-2_i386.deb
• This installs 1.6.2 into /opt/CollabNet/bin
• Now, fix up your PATH env to make sure it is using 1.6.2 ("which svn")