Fs2 open on Linux/Installing Subversion

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The fs2_open on Linux Guide Installing Subversion

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Note: If you don't want use live snapshot you can download a older snapshot of the source code, version 3.6.9, here.

Note: This step is only for those who want the bleeding-edge source code to compile on their own. You can skip this if you intend to use a provided binary executable.

Note: Redhat, Slackware and all the other distributions should have their instructions on installing Subversion added here, if your distribution is not listed below and you are familiar with how to install Subversion on it, please add it to this section.

Subversion is a version control system used to record the changes in documents, such as source files. Developers use Subversion so they can easily share their code changes among other developers through a SVN repository. Be aware that when you use Subversion, you use the most up-to-date code : It may or may not be better than a release. It may be worse, less stable, or not even compile.

You will need this tool to download ("checkout" in SVN terminology) fs2_open from the SVN repository.

Debian/Ubuntu users want to:

$ apt-get install subversion

Gentoo users want to:

$ emerge -a subversion

Archlinux users want to:

$ pacman -Sy subversion

Fedora Core 6 (Zod) (And most likely Redhat) users want to:

# yum install subversion

Mandriva users want to:

# urpmi subversion

Novell SuSE users install subversion via YaST.