Getting Subversion

Before you begin, make sure you have the Xcode Developer Tools installed. If you don't, you can download them for free off of the Apple Developer Connection website.

Also, please look at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ for a Subversion reference. Read through this before you begin.

There are multiple ways to get Subversion. Here are the 3 most popular on OS X:

• DarwinPorts
• Fink
• A prepackaged installer

The rest of this document will assume you chose the prepackaged installer. If you chose the other two options, please refer to the documentation for those projects.

Putting SVN in your path

Note: These instructions are for bash, the default shell on Panther and Tiger.

You will need to add /usr/local/bin to your path. To do this, run the following commands in a Terminal window:

touch ~/.bash_profile
open -e ~/.bash_profile

This will open the ~/.bash_profile in TextEdit. Note that it's perfectly fine for this file to be empty. Now add the following line to the file:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

Save and close the file, then close your Terminal window and open a new one. SVN should now be installed and configured correctly. Please continue to the next section for more information on how to install Adium from source.