Monday, October 19, 2009

Upgrading Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Subversion from 1.4.6 to 1.6

I am working on a project where I needed to update the current code to the latest via:
svn update
but instead encountered this error: "svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please get a newer Subversion client".

It seemed that my svn client which Ubuntu 8.04 claimed to be the most recent version is actually an old hag. I had to do more than a handful of Google queries to finally land the instructions I needed to get this to work.

Hop on over to https://launchpad.net/~anders-kaseorg/+archive/subversion-1.6 click on "Technical details about this PPA" and choose your Ubuntu version in the select list that appears.

Add the entry "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/anders-kaseorg/subversion-1.6/ubuntu hardy main" to your sources.list via:

echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/anders-kaseorg/subversion-1.6/ubuntu hardy main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list


You might need to perform that action while logged in as root (sudo -s) or by prefixing the command with sudo" or you'll get a "permission denied".

Once you are done, perform:

sudo apt-get update


and:
apt-get install subversion
which should list your subversion libraries/client as marked for upgrading.

YMMV
Posted by Said at 9:24:00 AM
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 8, 2009 at 8:02 PM

    Excellent post and hugely helpful! This helped me solve my problem, so thanks very much!

    One thing to add: if you access your svn repository through Apache (I use Apache 2.2), you'll need to restart the server. Assuming you manage your Apache binaries with apt-get, the appropriate modules should get installed. And assuming you already had svn working through Apache, the configuration will be updated. It just takes a nice kick of the server to get these picked up and get things humming again.

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  2. SaidDecember 8, 2009 at 8:32 PM

    I'm glad my post helped you in some way :)

    On my Ubuntu machine (8.04), the apache binaries do get restarted once apt-get completes the installation.

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  3. bobfriedFebruary 25, 2010 at 7:05 PM

    I've spent days trying to get this upgraded. It finally worked with your suggestions!

    Thank you!

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 6, 2011 at 5:09 PM

    Thank you so much. Just to add I needed instructions for adding the PPA key before I could run 'apt-get update' - see
    https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/InstallingSoftware#On%20older%20%28pre%209.10%29%20Ubuntu%20systems

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  5. SaidJanuary 8, 2011 at 3:56 PM

    Thanks for the tip Anonymous!

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