Thanks to Wandisco, which is maintaining the rpm packages for latest Subversion version. This article will help you to install subversion 1.9 ( svn client ) on CentOS/RHEL 7/6/5 Systems. If you want to configure Subversion server visit this article.

Step 1: Setup Yum Repository

Firstly we need to configure yum repository in our system. Create a new repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/wandisco-svn.repo and add following content as per your operating system version.

[WandiscoSVN]
name=Wandisco SVN Repo
baseurl=http://opensource.wandisco.com/centos/$releasever/svn-1.9/RPMS/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Step 2: Install Subversion 1.9

Before installing latest package remove existing subversion packages from system to remove conflict.

# yum remove subversion*

Now install latest available Subversion package using yum command line package manager utility.

# yum clean all
# yum install subversion

Step 3: Verify Subversion Version

At this stage you have successfully install Subversion client on your system. Lets use following command to verify version of svn client.

# svn --version

svn, version 1.9.5 (r1770682) compiled Dec 1 2016, 13:25:01 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu Copyright (C) 2016 The Apache Software Foundation. This software consists of contributions made by many people; see the NOTICE file for more information. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/ The following repository access (RA) modules are available: * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol. - with Cyrus SASL authentication - handles 'svn' scheme * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk. - handles 'file' scheme * ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol using serf. - using serf 1.3.7 (compiled with 1.3.7) - handles 'http' scheme - handles 'https' scheme The following authentication credential caches are available: * Plaintext cache in /root/.subversion * Gnome Keyring * GPG-Agent

References:

1. http://opensource.wandisco.com/