Ubuntu 9.04 – Upgrade Subversion 1.5 to 1.6

Ubuntu 9.04 – Upgrade Subversion 1.5 to 1.6
September 3rd, 2009 Posted in Open Source, Version Control Systems

For those of you, who use Ubuntu 9.04 and would like to have the new features coming with Subversion 1.6, here is a short guide to upgrade from 1.5.

Add the following two lines to your software source list (in /etc/apt/sources.list) …

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/anders-kaseorg/subversion-1.6/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/anders-kaseorg/subversion-1.6/ubuntu jaunty main

… and add the key of Anders Kaseorg to your trusted keys …

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 413576CB

Finally update your package list and do the upgrade:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade