How to Download / Install Precompiled Subversion Binaries for Debian
There was an attempt to update my subversion installation, but due to (I believe) limited rights (I am using a Linux guest account), I cannot properly "./configure" and compile from source (see Post1 and Post2 posts if they are very interested)
So, I think if I could just download the precompiled binaries , I just might be able to solve my problems. If you have any better ideas - I'd love to hear that too!
NB: I cannot call aptitude or apt-get install subversion as suggested by subversion.tigris.com
I'm also curious to know how I'm going to install these precompiled binaries :)
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You can extract binaries from the deb package for your architecture (which you can download from here ) using dpkg-deb -x
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So, for example, you can do this if you are on i386:
wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/subversion/subversion_1.5.4dfsg1-1_i386.deb dpkg -x subversion_1.5.4dfsg1-1_i386.deb subversion
Of course, you might have to do a little bit of work to get it to work. Extracting a package is not the same as installing it.
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