How to Install Subversion (SVN) 1.8.15 on 6

Step 1: Setup Yum Repository

Firstly we need to configure yum repository in our system. Create a new repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/wandisco-svn.repo and add following content as per your operating system version.

[WandiscoSVN]

name=Wandisco SVN Repo

baseurl=http://opensource.wandisco.com/rhel/$releasever/svn-1.8/RPMS/$basearch/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

Step 2: Install Subversion Package

Before installing latest package remove existing subversion packages from system to remove conflict.

# yum remove subversion*

Now install latest available Subversion package using yum command line package manager utility.

# yum clean all

# yum install subversion

Step 3: Verify Subversion Version

At this stage you have successfully install Subversion client on your system. Lets use following command to verify version of svn client.

# svn --version

References: 

1. http://opensource.wandisco.com/