Installation of CVS

[webchoicesg]

Hi,

I am interested in installing CVS in my VPS account to track the changes done by the various user.

Any good CVS to recommend and the procedures in the installation of CVS at the server side?

Thanks!

[Vin DSL]

Gawd!

CVS is, like, soooo last year...

Check out Subversion, dude!

[Vin DSL]

Thanks!

Heh!

No Problem...

Shhh! I just wanted one of these morons to come in here and say how BitKeeper cleans Subversion's clock...

[webchoicesg]

However, I realize that Subversion needs at least apache 2 whereas the apache version here is 1.something.

[Vin DSL]

However, I realize that Subversion needs at least apache 2 whereas the apache version here is 1.something.

Excuse my ignorance, but I only have a SDX account...

Is Apache 2 not available to you on VPS

[webchoicesg]

nope.

[Vin DSL]

nope.

Hrm...

Well, I'll have to defer until the morn, to give my brain a rest. I just worked 22 hours straight up...

In the meantime, maybe somebody else will pop in here!

[R45]

You don't need Apache2 to run Subversion, you can use SSH only if you want.

[webchoicesg]

Hi folks!

Would need your kind help!
I am lost in how to install the Subversion in the VPS account.
1. DO I need both Subversion server and client program to install? Or I would just need to install a program on my client side and will do?
2. If there is, how to? Any manual (easy to understand would be great)

I am very lost when they release the subversion in Linux and Windows format. My VPS account is Linux while I am using Windows. So do I install what on where?

I has installed tortoiseSVN, but is there any better GUI based SVN client for me to use?

Thanks a million folks for your great help!

[jason]

You should be able to install Apache 2 on your VPS, I see no reason why that would be a problem. JPC is still using 1.3 on their servers, so that's what I'd imagine they install by default, but I see no reason why you couldn't upgrade. Regardless, you only need Apache 2 if you are going to run the WebDav interface to SVN. If you just want to use SVN over SSH or over the default svn:// protocol you don't need Apache 2.

I use svn for a couple projects at work, using TortoiseSVN as my client. I haven't found anything else that I like better.

All you really need on the VPS is the svn server, but it doesn't hurt to install the client as well. That way you can modify and commit changes while you're working in an SSH session on the server. This might be helpful when trying to configure things to get you apps working. Install the Linux/Unix version of svn on the server.

On Windows you'll only need a client. The client on the svn website is the command line client. If you are using Tortoise then it is your client and you don't need the command line client.

As for installation, I'm running svn on a CentOS virtual server (similar to a JPC VPS, except that I'm using VMWare instead of Virtuosso). I believe (and its been a while) I just installed the RPM via yum: yum install svn or something like that...

Hope this helps.

--Jason

[webchoicesg]

Jason, thanks for your great advice!

Pardon me but I am very new in this. I am too used in the traditional method of uploading the file via a FTP client and I reckon that to install SVN on the server side, I would need to SSH/(Putty?) it up and do some sort of stuff.

Any good sites that provides 'step to step' guide for me to upload and install the svn client to the server side? All I know now is to get the package from http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html

Thanks once again Jason for your wonderful advice!

[AlexKall]

This depends on what version of Linux probebly but do:

wget #address to the file then press enter

if its a tar.gz file, use tar -xvzf *file*
if its a zip file, use unzip *file*

There's usually a install readme file in the package, look at that for help on how to install it.

What Operating system do you have (debian? Fedora? etc)
Are you useing any control panels or just SSH?

I would be able to help you futher if you have Fedore Core 4 and without any control panels.

[webchoicesg]

Hi Alex,

Thanks!

I am using CentOS with Cpanel at the moment.

I guess I can upload the entire tar .gz file and work on it thru SSH?

[AlexKall]

Yes but its better to download it through SSH (one less time consuming prosess). I do it all the time and usually get up to 2 - 3 MB instead of 1Mb as I would in case of downloading to computer (8 Mbit) and then up to the server (1 Bit instead of 2 - 3 MByte/s)

Undortently im clueless about the differences between centos and fedora, and a control panel complicate things as you need to be in tune with that aswell.