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Ever wondered why svn centos is so massively out of date? Why cant svn centos just be the same version as everyone else uses? For some reason subversion on centos is still stuck at version 1.4 (a now officially unsupported version of svn) whereas the rest of the world has moved on to using the latest version of svn 1.6

Well never fear, as Hardcore Homework is here to help you with your svn centos problem!

• Step 1 - First things first, there is no svn centos release, so go download the source release of subversion. At the time of writing this is version 1.6.6, but undoubtedly they will update it, so check the subversion download page for updates.
• Step 2 - As svn centos requires more than the default set of libraries, you will also need to download subversion dependancy files. Again check the subversion download page to make sure you have the most up to date version, and also the version which matches the svn centos version your trying to install.
• Step 3 - Right click on the svn centos dependancies file and click extra here to unzip the contents to desktop
• Step 4 - Rename this extracted folder to "svn centos dependancies". This is simply because when we extract the next zip it will try to extract to the same folder, and centos is a pain and will complain about this, so just rename it to avoid this issue.
• Step 5 - Right click on the main svn centos zip file and choose extract to desktop once again.
• Step 6 - Open both the svn centos and the svn centos dependancies folders, then MOVE (i.e. drag and drop) the entire contents of the svn centos dependancies folder into the svn centos folder. This should now leave the svn centos dependancies folder empty, and you can now delete this folder, as it is no longer needed.
• Step 7 - Now for the actual install. Right click on the svn centos folder, and choose the "Open in Terminal" option.
• Step 8 - From here you need to type "./configure", ignoring the quotes.
• Step 9 - Lots and lots of output will now spam by, this is normal, centos/linux seems to love plowing out random output, once this has finished though you can continue to the next step, ASSUMING that no error messages happen. If an error does occur, then google the FIRST error message, however if you follow these instructions properly, you shouldnt see any errors!
• Step 10 - Next thing to type is "make install", you either need to do this as root/a privledged user, or add a "sudo " before the command. This will install svn centos onto your system and onto the path.
• Step 11 - To check that you have correctly installed svn centos, cd out of this folder (i.e. "cd ..") and then type "svn --version". Assuming all has gone well you should see some output from subversion showing the installed version.
• Step 12 - Done!

And there you have it, you should now have a fully working of svn centos!