Installing SVN on an OS other than FreeBSD(*) such as Linux, Solaris or Win32 Option 1 Fetch a precompiled binary from subversion.tigris.org for win32 binairies: http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=91 Option 2 Use your package management utilities to fetch a copy. Option 3 Compile from Source. Only the latter method is documented here. Compiling from Source: The step by step procedure below has been tested on a i686 2600Mhz, 500 mb ram, with a stable Debian woody release. - Fetch the source: http://subversion.tigris.org/files/documents/15/4218/subversion-0.23.0.tar.gz - Decompress tar xvzf subversion-0.23.0.tar.gz - Configure and build cd subversion-0.23.0 ./configure make - Install su make install exit - Fetch the wireless leiden code: mkdir /usr/svn cd /usr/svn svn co http://wleiden.webweaving.org:8080/svn/node-config/ . - Read the License cat /usr/svn/node-config/LICENSE done! Marten *) On FreeBSD simply do 'pkg_add -r subversion'