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Getting Started with SVN on Linux

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Nov 11, 2016

Getting Started with SVN on Linux
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In today’s article we will show you how to install Subversion on a Linux VPS, and some basic Subversion commands. Subversion, or commonly abbreviated as SVN is an open source software versioning and revision control system. It allows users to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, documents and other electronic data.

First, Install SVN on Linux

In order to install SVN, connect to your Linux VPS via SSH.

If you are using an Ubuntu VPS, update the OS packages and install SVN on your server using the commands below:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install svn

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