# More svn problems - installed but not working (i think)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/more-svn-problems-installed-but-not-working-i-think/115203>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [September 21, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/more-svn-problems-installed-but-not-working-i-think/115203 "2007-09-21T17:58:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cmaxvv)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/more-svn-problems-installed-but-not-working-i-think/115203/1 "2007-09-21T17:58:09Z")

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I’ve been struggling with installing svn, using a forum post on my  
shared host (bluehost)'s forum:  
[http://www.bluehostforum.com/showthread.php?p=40515#post40515](http://www.bluehostforum.com/showthread.php?p=40515#post40515)

I’m asking here because there’s not much traffic and not much replying  
to my svn hassles on that forum…

I downloaded the tar file for svn (version 1.4.5), untarred it, then  
entered the following:

./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-berkeley-db --with-zlib --with-ssl  
–with-apr=/home/reeplies/src/apr-1.2.11  
–with-apr-util=/home/reeplies/src/apr-util-1.2.10

(i’d already installed apr and apr-utils, assuming that it worked, i  
don;t know much about this stuff but it looked like something was  
happening)

The above generated a load of output. I then did “make” which generated  
a bunch more output and “make install” which did some more. I thought  
this would have installed svn but when i type

svn --version

i get  
bash: svn: command not found

Does anyone know where i’m going wrong? I’m a newcomer to unix and have  
only used svn locally in the windows shell before.

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**Author:** ![cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cmaxvv)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/more-svn-problems-installed-but-not-working-i-think/115203/2 "2007-09-21T19:55:36Z")

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`make install` will need root permissions – so you could either `su -`  
to log in as root with the root password, then `make install`; or, if  
sudo is set up, use `sudo make install` and give your usual password.

Linux/Unix has a learning curve – if you’re deploying Rails apps to a  
\*nix server, you’ll probably need to get some reading done 🙂

– Thomas.

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**Author:** ![cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@cmaxvv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cmaxvv)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/more-svn-problems-installed-but-not-working-i-think/115203/3 "2007-09-21T20:14:31Z")

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Thomas Nichols wrote:

> `make install` will need root permissions – so you could either `su -`  
> to log in as root with the root password, then `make install`; or, if  
> sudo is set up, use `sudo make install` and give your usual password.
> 
> Linux/Unix has a learning curve – if you’re deploying Rails apps to a  
> \*nix server, you’ll probably need to get some reading done 🙂
> 
> – Thomas.

ah right…thanks!  
Yep, it has been painful. Fortunately i have some friends with  
experience who’ve very kindly helped me out 🙂

This is all for my degree project - deployment’s got a whole chapter to  
itself!

cheers  
max