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APR—the Apache Portable Runtime library. The APR library
provides all the interfaces that Subversion needs to function on
different operating systems: disk access, network access, memory
management, and so on. While Subversion is able to use Apache
as one of its network server programs, its dependence on APR
<span class="emphasis"><em>does not</em></span> mean that Apache is a required
component. APR is a standalone library useable by any
application. It does mean, however, that like Apache,
Subversion clients and servers run on any operating system that
the Apache httpd server runs on: Windows, Linux, all flavors of
BSD, Mac OS X, Netware, and others.</p><p>The easiest way to get Subversion is to download a binary
package built for your operating system. Subversion's website
(<a class="ulink" href="http://subversion.tigris.org" target="_top">http://subversion.tigris.org</a>) often has these
packages available for download, posted by volunteers. The site
usually contains graphical installer packages for users of
Microsoft operating systems. If you run a Unix-like operating
system, you can use your system's native package distribution
system (RPMs, DEBs, the ports tree, etc.) to get
Subversion.</p><p>Alternately, you can build Subversion directly from source
code, though it's not always an easy task. (If you're not
experienced at building open source software packages, you're
probably better off downloading a binary distribution instead!)
From the Subversion website, download the latest source-code
release. After unpacking it, follow the instructions in
the <code class="filename">INSTALL</code> file to build it. Note that a
released source package may not contain everything you need to
build a command-line client capable of talking to a remote
repository. Starting with Subversion 1.4 and later, the
libraries Subversion depends on (apr, apr-util, and neon) are
distributed in a separate source package suffixed
with <code class="filename">-deps</code>. These libraries are now common
enough that they may already be installed on your system. If
not, you'll need to unpack the dependency package into the same
directory where you unpacked the main Subversion source.
Regardless, it's possible that you may want to fetch other
optional dependencies such as Berkeley DB and possibly Apache
httpd. If you want to do a complete build, make sure you have
all of the packages documented in
the <code class="filename">INSTALL</code> file.</p><p>If you're one of those folks that likes to use bleeding-edge
software, you can also get the Subversion source code from the
Subversion repository in which it lives. Obviously, you'll need
to already have a Subversion client on hand to do this. But
once you do, you can check out a working copy of the Subversion source
repository from <a class="ulink" href="http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/" target="_top">http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/</a>:
<sup>[<a id="id446328" href="#ftn.id446328" class="footnote">61</a>]</sup></p><pre class="screen">
$ svn checkout http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk subversion
A subversion/HACKING
A subversion/INSTALL
A subversion/README
A subversion/autogen.sh
A subversion/build.conf
…
</pre><p>The above command will create a working copy of the latest
(unreleased) Subversion source code into a subdirectory
named <code class="filename">subversion</code> in your current working
directory. You can adjust that last argument as you see fit.
Regardless of what you call the new working copy directory,
though, after this operation completes, you will now have the
Subversion source code. Of course, you will still need to fetch
a few helper libraries (apr, apr-util, etc.)—see
the <code class="filename">INSTALL</code> file in the top level of the
working copy for details.</p><div class="footnotes"><br /><hr width="100" align="left" /><div class="footnote"><p><sup>[<a id="ftn.id446328" href="#id446328" class="para">61</a>] </sup>Note that the URL checked out in the example above
ends not with <code class="literal">svn</code>, but with a
subdirectory thereof called <code class="literal">trunk</code>. See
our discussion of Subversion's branching and tagging model
for the reasoning behind this.</p></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.intro.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="svn.intro.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.intro.quickstart.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Appendix A. Subversion Quick-Start Guide </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> High-speed Tutorial</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
