Day one – part time job – semantic web services. Need to install SVN on me mac… I’ve bothered at least two people in kmi till i found this really useful tutorial here…..

I’ve firstly tried to install it using DarwinPorts, but I was always getting the  same error:
michelepasin:~ michelepasin$ sudo port install subversion
Password:
--->  Fetching db44
--->  Attempting to fetch patch.4.4.20.1 from http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/db/update/4.4.20/
--->  Attempting to fetch patch.4.4.20.1 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/db44
--->  Attempting to fetch patch.4.4.20.1 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
--->  Attempting to fetch patch.4.4.20.1 from http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/db44
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: The following dependencies failed to build: apr-util db44 expat libiconv sqlite3 readline ncurses ncursesw gettext neon openssl zlib
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

basically all you gotta do is get a pre-packaged easy-to-install version of subversion here (we love the terminal, but the less  i have to deal with it the simpler my life is, apparently), and then  you may also install a subversion environment manager, such as SVNX… et voila subversion’s running!