How to install SubversionEdge or CollabNet SVN on Centos

For any company in IT Department, versioning is a darn important part of the development process.

Software versioning is important because:

• It maintains the history of your code and the sequence in which changes were made
• It maintains the latest copy of your code in case your computer crashes
• It helps manage code properly when collaborating with other developers

You’ll understand the importance right away, when a developer you’re working with makes and edit that can’t be reverted or when a client accidentally deletes a file.
Trust me that happens.

In this article, I’m going to talk about installing this very software on Centos


Installing SubversionEdge

because we will install CSVN in user mode, for that we must create CSVN user first.

[root@localhost ~]# adduser csvn [root@localhost ~]# passwd csvn Changing password for user csvn. New password: Retype new password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

Step #1 The Prerequisites

So, we start with the prerequisites. The prerequisite for SubversionEdge is Java. Hence, to begin with, we’ll have to install Java.
Now, if you’re not sure if Java is already installed, you can fire the below command to check the same:

[root@localhost ~]# java -version openjdk version "1.8.0_121" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.121-b13, mixed mode)

If Java is installed the Java version should be displayed. if java is not installed on your system, you can install java in the following url:


Step #2 Installing CollabNet SVN

Download the latest version of Subversion Edge from CollabNet. It should be a tar.gz file.

Then, use the below commands to install the software. Do remember to replace CollabNetSubversionEdge-5.2.4_linux-x86_64.tar.gz with the tar.gz file you’ve downloaded from CollabNet. and put the downloaded file into the folder /home

[root@localhost ~]# cd /home [root@localhost home]# [root@localhost home]# gzip -d CollabNetSubversionEdge-5.2.4_linux-x86_64.tar.gz [root@localhost home]# tar xf CollabNetSubversionEdge-5.2.4_linux-x86_64.tar [root@localhost home]# cd /home/csvn/bin/ [root@localhost bin]# ./csvn install Detected RHEL or Fedora: Installing the CSVN Console daemon.. Setting RUN_AS_USER to: 'root'. Please edit '../data/conf/csvn.conf' if this needs to be adjusted Setting JAVA_HOME to: ''. Please edit '../data/conf/csvn.conf' if this needs to be adjusted. [root@localhost bin]# ./csvn-httpd install Detected RHEL or Fedora:  Installing the Subversion Edge Apache Server daemon.. [root@localhost bin]# cd /home/ [root@localhost home]# chown csvn:csvn csvn/ -Rf

login as csvn user and edit file csvn.conf

[csvn@localhost ~]$ vi data/conf/csvn.conf

Setting RUN_AS_USER to: csvn

and back to root account again

CollabNet SVN should now be installed. All we need to do, is start their console and start using the application.
To start their console, fire the command

[root@localhost ~]# service csvn start Starting CSVN Console... ... CSVN Console started Waiting for application to initialize (this may take a minute)............................... CSVN Console is ready at http://localhost:3343/csvn

Once this command runs successfully, you can view CollabNet SVN at work by heading over to http://localhost:3343/csvn
That’s it! Hope you’ve got the service up and running. and you can adjust the server settings to the existing conditions


Good luck managing your repositories!