How To : Install Netbeans CollabNet Subversion Client on Ubuntu

May 21, 2012

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I think, Netbeans is the most powerful IDE (Integrated Development Environment). It has an integrated subversion client, it uses CollabNet Subversion Client. But, you will get little problem if you use Ubuntu, because there is only package available for RedHat (.rpm).

But, there is still other way to install the CollabNet Subversion Client on your Ubuntu. In fact, you don’t need to download a package from CollabNet. Simply use the Ubuntu repositories. Subversion client is available in Ubuntu software repositories, can you use the Synaptic Package Manager or apt-get from the terminal.

If you do not have Netbeans, download Netbeans first, the newest vesion is Netbeans 6.9. To install it, use Terminal and execute the .sh file

$./netbeans-6.9-ml-php-linux.sh

Oops, Netbeans requires JDK, get it from Sun Developer Network.

$sh jdk-6u20-linux-i586.bin

$sudo move jdk-1.60_20/ /usr/lib/

Next, install the subversion client.

$sudo apt-get install subversion

Check your subversion version, if you get this information, you’re good to go.

$svn --version

svn, version 1.6.6 (r40053)
   compiled Dec 12 2009, 05:04:54

Copyright (C) 2000-2009 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using Neon.
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - with Cyrus SASL authentication
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme

Now, open your Netbeans, go to Team–>Subversion–>Checkout. If you are prompted to insert the svn executable file path, insert the following path :