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Hello, I'm installing subversion on an Xubuntu desktop system with apache2 installed and running fine. However, I wanted to use Subversion 1.6 because of the sparse directory feature. I'm running Jaunty, but I was able to tell apt-get to download 1.6.1 by temporarily adding the software source "deb http://source archive.canonical.com/ubuntu karmic main" and removing the regular "jaunty" source from the list.

However, it seems that Ubuntu's karmic distribution installs subversion 1.6.1 fine, but when it gets to apache2lib-svn it installs 1.5.4 rather than 1.6.1. What can I do to remedy this? I'm trying to use apt-get remove since I know it cleans up packages of what you've installed, and being relatively new to Linux I figured it's better not to leave random packages lying around without a home.

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I'm running Ubuntu desktop, so I found the solution would be to disable all the standard Ubuntu repositories in Synaptic, then add "deb http://packages.debian.org/squeeze". Squeeze is the test release, and has Subversion v1.6.3 and libapache2-svn v1.6.3. Then you can apt-get install subversion libapache2-svn to your heart's content.

bearcdp
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My PPA has a backport of Karmic’s subversion 1.6.5 packages to Hardy, Intrepid, and Jaunty, including libapache2-svn. See also this backport request.

Anders Kaseorg