I have installed svn, version 1.6.17 (r1128011) on to Ubuntu 12-04
I made my repo here:
$ sudo mkdir /home/2nd-disk/svn
Set up my /etc/
add the reference to your vhost instead of dav_svn.conf:
DAV svn
SVNPath /var/local/svn
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Subversion repository"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/dav_svn.passwd
Require valid-user
good tutorial is here: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Subversion
don't forget to restart apache to apply changes:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart