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Re: Trying to build SVN 1.5 on Ubuntu

From: Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 13:29:05 -0500

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 10:39:42AM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
> > Well, thanks for the help guys. I think I finally got "make" and "make
> > install" to work, and when I go to /usr/local/bin, I see all of the
> > subversion programs. However, when I use 'svn' from the command line,
> it
> > says:
> >
> > bash: /usr/bin/svn: No such file or directory
>
> You deinstalled the Ubuntu subversion package, but your shell still
> thinks the svn binary should be in the location where the package had
> put it. You can try to run the "rehash" command to make your shell pick
> up the new location of the svn command, some shells need this.
>
> Or just start and use a new shell.

Restarting PuTTY helped! I can now use svn anywhere.

> And make sure /usr/local/bin is in your shell's $PATH!
>
> If you're using the bash shell, a line like this at the very end
> of the file .bashrc in your home directory should do the trick:
>
> export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. I was able to find my .bashrc
file, but I didn't see anything about /user/local/bin in it. What is $PATH?
Remember, I'm still new to linux :(

> > What is wrong? I should be able to do checkouts at this point right?
>
> Yes, you should. In any case, if you type the full path, like
> "/usr/local/bin/svn" instead of just "svn", it should definitely work.

Thanks again for your help. Now to get that svn+ssh server running :)
Received on 2008-06-07 20:29:30 CEST

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