How to download/install pre-compiled Subversion binaries for Debian

Question

Been trying to upgrade my subversion installation, but due to (what I believe) are limited rights (I'm using hosted Linux account), I'm not able to properly "./configure" and compile the source code (see posts Post1 and Post2 if very interested)

So, I'm thinking if I could just download pre-compiled binaries, the just might solve my problems. If you have better ideas - I'd love to hear that too!

NB: I'm not able to call aptitude or apt-get install subversion as suggested by subversion.tigris.com

I'm also interested in knowing how I would go about installing those pre-compiled binaries :)

Answer 1

You can extract the binaries from the deb package for your architecture (which you can download from here) using dpkg-deb -x.

So for example you can do this if you're on i386:

wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/subversion/subversion_1.5.4dfsg1-1_i386.deb
dpkg -x subversion_1.5.4dfsg1-1_i386.deb subversion

Of course you might have to do some tweaking to make it work. Extracting a package is not the same thing as installing it.

Answer 2

Look at the Debian list of SVN packages, I would assume the etch (stable) is the one you need.

Answer 3

Also see this thread on the same topic.