Installing SVN without root access

Question

I have a remote SSH access to a web server. It's running on CentOS and I was wondering how can I install a SVN client locally ?

Is it even possible?

Solution 1

Most unix programs can be compiled, installed, and run without root permissions. With tools that use autoconf, you just need to specify a prefix as to where to install the resulting artifacts. The procedure usually looks like this:

./configure --prefix=${HOME}
make
make check
make install

With subversion, you may have to compile a number of dependencies first. These include:

• libapr and libapr-util
• SQLite
• libz
• libneon or libserf (optional)
• OpenSSL (optional)
• Berkely DB (optional)
• libsasl (optional)
• KDELibs, GNOME Keyring (optional)

Solution 2

You could download the SVN source code. At the beginning, you can say ./configure --prefix=/path/to/home/directory. Then you can make, and make install, and subversion will be installed to the path specified in "prefix". This would install it in a place where your user could run the program, but it wouldn't be installed system-wide.

Solution 3

Download latest sources from http://subversion.tigris.org

unpack it, and change dir to result folder (for example subversion-1.8.1 - latest one)

./configure --prefix=$HOME 

make install  

check for result

$HOME/bin/svn --version

enjoy! :)

Comments

[Admin]

Or even just --prefix=$HOME, since that should be set properly.