First try:
Adding Hardy's Backport-Repository (deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-backports main) into the /etc/apt/sources.list. Slightly better but far away from perfect: Version 1.5.1 was installed.
I was wondering: Is there a way to install the latest version of SVN without compiling the source distribution? Ubuntu is very widespread and SVN likewise. There needs to be a binary version of SVN 1.6.9 out there... So I googled but failed. Instead I found some up-to-date RPM packages.
At the end I decided to take those RPM packages and convert them into DEB packages.
This worked fine for me:
* Download Red Hat packages at: http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion/redhat.html
* Installation as follows:
apt-get install alien root@dev:/install/subversion# alien --version alien version 8.69 alien CollabNetSubversion-client-1.6.9-1.x86_64.rpm alien CollabNetSubversion-server-1.6.9-1.x86_64.rpm dpkg -i collabnetsubversion-client_1.6.9-2_amd64.deb dpkg -i collabnetsubversion-server_1.6.9-2_amd64.deb vi /etc/environment root@dev:~# echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/CollabNet_Subversion/bin/:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games root@dev:~# svn --version svn, version 1.6.9 (r901367) compiled Jan 24 2010, 16:38:33
