How do I install Perl's SVN::Client?

Question

I want to use the SVN::Client cpan module to check out code from a repository.

But how to install and use this module? The documentation is kind of no existing.

Answer 1

Install the package subversion-perl.

Answer 2

As best I can tell, Alien::SVN and its constituent modules are no longer maintained. The subversion binary it compiles is extremely old (1.4, circa 2006). You may be better off piping to a pre-installed (and up-to-date) binary.

Answer 3

Follow following steps to install Alien-SVN module on you system:

1) Download the latest Alien-SVN module from CPAN http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/Alien-SVN-v1.6.12.1.tar.gz

2) Untar the file using taz-zxf <Package_name>

3) cd Alien-SVN-v1.6.12.1

4) The Apache Portable Runtime is required by the Alien-SVN. To download APR and APR-Util run time run the following commands while inside Alien-SVN-v1.6.12.1 directory

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/branches/1.2.x \apr
svn co  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr-util/branches/1.2.x \apr-util

5) Now run perl Build.PL which is inside Alien-SVN-v1.6.12.1 directory

6) It will ask for some options

7) It will ask whether you would like to pass some arguments to configure. Give arguments as follows

--with-apr=<path_where_you_chechek_out_apr> --with-apr-util=<path_where_you_chechek_out_apr-util>

8) After successfully running Build.PL, run ./Build Alien-SVN-v1.6.12.1 directory.

9) After running ./Build, successfully, open native directory which is located as Alien-SVN-v1.6.12.1/src/subversion/subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native

10) Run following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make install

11) This will install Alien-SVN on your system :)

Answer 4

cpan> install SVN::Client