On 10/16/07, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/07, Lou <lou@dayspringpublisher.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My first post on this list. I've spent several hours reading the
> documentation, but still need some guidance.
> >
> > We have permission from the company hosting our web site (Bluehost.com )
> to install a Subversion server on their Linux server, but with no support
> from them!
> >
> > The server is in the USA, and we expect to have no more than 10 to 15
> users around the world (some running XP and others Linux), working on 4 or 5
> different programming projects. I am in Indonesia; so will have to do the
> installation over the Internet. I run XP and know very little about Linux.
> >
> > So far, I've been able to use Bluehost's cPanel to activate mod_dav.
> >
> > My question: Now what is the very simplest way to install Subversion on
> that web server? Is there a step by step for dummies guide on how to do
> this?
>
> are you familiar enough w/ linux to determine which distribution of linux is
> on the machine?
> practically all popular version of linux will have an installer for
> subversion available.
> that is the most direct and error prone way to install it.
>
That is true for many distros, but take for instance Redhat Enterprise
Linux 4. It's subversion is old and you most definetly want all the
current features when setting up a repo for the first time. In this
case you have to go around the package manager.
Of course it all depends on what distro he IS running.
> -nathan
>
>
>
Troy
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Received on Wed Oct 17 06:08:52 2007