Upgrade SVN client in older ubuntu versions
Ubuntu LTS version[12.04] doesn't have svn client 1.7 installed. If you tried to use a newer svn local repository with default version, you get an error: This is the fix: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dominik-stadler/subversion-1.7 If you already have subversion previous intalled, remove it sudo apt-get remove subversion sudo apt-get update Now, reinstalling subversion will fix your issue. But it may required to download some files [about 4 MB] from subversion site. sudo apt-get install subversion