Installing SVN Server on VM Host (Ubuntu 12.04) - Part 1

In this tutorial I'll be describing how to install and configure SVN Server on Ubuntu virtual host. Except for few commands, most of this tutorial will be applicable to various Linux distributions.

Check list for this tutorial. :D :D

VMWare workstation (I use VMWare 9.0). You may wish to use VMWare player as it is free. Only difference you will feel is only one VM at a given time you can use if you use VM Ware player.

Ubuntu Linux ISO (I use 12.04 as it is the long term support available distribution)

Finally a internet connection.


First of all I will describe how to create a virtual host which runs ubuntu.

Open up VMWare.

Click File ==> New Virtual Machine

And then a window will popup.

Select Typical and press next

Select install from a disk. Press brows and select the Ubuntu installation ISO.

Then press next.

Provide the personalize information and press next.

Finally provide a name for the virtual machine and click next and then finish.

Now you have a virtual machine to host your VNC Server. But wait, we forgot to install the OS for the machine. Lets see how can we install the operating system to the virtual machine.

Select the virtual pc you create from the library (Located in the left hand side of the screen).
And then click "Power on the virtual machine" link.

Then the vm will load.

Then the installation window will popup. Select Install from that window

After that a window will popup.

Select "Something else" from that.

Create new partition table like above and press install now.

Then it will popup another window to provide some mandatory data. Fill them and wait till the OS get installed.

Good. Now you have a working virtual machine also. 

Lets go and continue installing SVN Server on the virtual host.

First of all will create a Bridge network connection for our virtual machine.

Click "Edit Virtual machine Settings" and select network adapter. Select the network connection : Bridged.

Then open up the terminal.(Yeah now we are gonna install SVN Server.. finally..)

Type the following code and press enter

"sudo apt-get install subversion"

Finally we are done installing SVN Server to our vm host. To check the svn server type
"svn --version"

If you do exactly as the tutorial mentioned, a description like above will appear.

For now that's enough :D :D .

Let's see how to configure SVN Server from the next article.

Till then.....