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How to install subversion on your linux shared hosting account

  1. Find out which linux distro your web host is running
  2. Download a set of subversion binaries for that linux distro
    1. or install that linux distro on a VM and compile into a PREFIX directory
  3. Copy bin/svn and require libs onto your web host (see list below for svn 1.6.16)
  4. Voila!


List of libs required for svn client:
svntest/lib/libsvn_ra-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8
svntest/lib/libsvn_diff-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libneon.so.27
svntest/lib/libsvn_ra_neon-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_subr-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_ra_local-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_wc-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_ra_svn-1.so.0
svntest/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2
svntest/lib/libsvn_fs_util-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_delta-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libldap-2.4.so.2
svntest/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
svntest/lib/libsvn_fs_fs-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_fs-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libapr-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libserf-0.so.0
svntest/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libgdbm.so.3
svntest/lib/libsvn_ra_serf-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_client-1.so.0
svntest/lib/libsvn_repos-1.so.0