Installing Subversion on SuSE SLES 10 Yet Again

If you are on this page, I'm assuming you have already visited my previous article on the same topic. I'm trying to install subversion again on SuSE SLES 10 and I noticed that the locations of files are changes on the openSuse server. Here is the latest experience ;)

After a little bit of fooling around I found some files but got stuck on dependencies. While looking for a better way of "installing packages on suse" I ran into a blog where a Suse employee suggested software builder. I decided to give it a go. There is a link where you can select your distro and search for packages: http://software.opensuse.org/search

Searching for subversion for SLES 10 SP2 I got 293 hits, and decided to pick the one ending with :svn/SLE_10. To test the one-click install I started firefox on the server over the ssh:

firefox -no-remote &

But it didn't work. On http://en.opensuse.org/One_Click_Install/UserFAQ it says I need to add an installation source and install yast2-metapackage-handler package. Added the source using yast: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/SLE_10/

zypper in yast2-metapackage-handler

Installation completed with no issues. Now we are back on track ;) Trying to install the one-click-installation:

sudo /sbin/OCICLI subversion.ymp
Unable to retrieve YMP at subversion.ymp
Continue? y/N
y

Seemed to work. This time I decided to try to install another package using one-click-install directly from the web:

# sudo /sbin/OCICLI http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/devel:tools:scm:svn/SLE_10/subversion-tools.ymp
If you choose to continue, the following repositories will be subscribed to:
    * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SLE-10:/SDK/standard/
    * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/tools:/scm:/svn/SLE_10/
If you choose to continue, the following software packages will be installed:
    * subversion-tools
Continue? y/N
y

Seemed to work again. Like magic ;)

Well I thought it was like magic. The first try failed. The computer had no idea what "svn" command meant. I issued the following commands, knowing that subversion was added to the repository now.

sudo zypper in subversion

Installed several packages. After resourcing my .cshrc (or exit the shell and log back in) now I can issue svn commands. I'm not sure if subversion was not installed with the one-click-install or not but this seemed to work.

Last Updated on Thursday, 07 January 2010 14:37