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I am trying to install svn and am running into issues. The command I am running is sudo apt-get install svn. When I run this, I get the error "Unable to locate package svn". Why is this? How do I fix it?

girardengo
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The package is called subversion (abbreviated svn). You've to install it by running:

sudo apt-get install subversion

This package contains the svnserve daemon too (not started by default). If you want to host a subversion server over HTTP, you must install apache2 and configure it accordingly.

matan h
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Lekensteyn
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    Is there a client only package as well? Or you have to install the server as well. – Martin Jun 04 '14 at 11:13
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    @Martin The server binary (`svnserve`) is only 85 KiB, the administration tool `svnadmin` is 72KiB. Their manpages are some KiB. Just install the `subversion` package to get all subversion programs (`svnserve` "server", `svn` client (256KiB)). You do not need a server like Apache for the client functionality. – Lekensteyn Jun 04 '14 at 12:17
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There is no package with the name of SVN . You may type this command on terminal.

sudo apt-get install subversion

Then you can check it using svn command 

svn co "type here your checkout URL without double quotes"

svn status 

svn commit ...........your file name
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apt-get is an amazing package manager, but often the names of packages aren't exactly named the way you would expect. (Obviously not the fault of apt-get) for example, downloading java isn't apt-get install java. as for your issue, the name of the svn package in apt-get is subversion.

apt-get install subversion

have fun with your subversion needs!

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