Can't install subversion on Mountain Lion OSX

Question

I downloaded the subversion installer in the "Community Binaries" at collabnet: http://www.collab.net/downloads/subversion#tab-3 . When I try to install it, I go through Introduction, Read Me, and License. When I get to Destination Select, "Install for all users of this computer" is greyed out. I can not proceed during this point. Does anyone know why?

Answer 1

Mountain Lion does have Subversion version 1.6.18 available from Apple. However, it's a bit convoluted to get it:

• Download Xcode from the Mac OS X App Store (Free program)
• Select the Menu item Xcode->Preferences...
• Select the "Downloads" section.
• Choose Command Line Tools and click on the Install button.

After that, the Subversion command line client will be available. The svnserve server is also included. Unfortunately, the mod_dav.so and mod_dav_svn.so files needed for running Subversion server via Apache https are no longer included. I think they might be included in Mac OS X Server, but that's a $20 purchase.

Hope this helps. It's not version 1.7.x, but it's much easier to get working than the old community binary version which I don't believe works in Mountain Lion (and is also version 1.6.18)

Answer 2

如果您不需要Xcode，可以直接从https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action下载开发人员命令行工具，为您节省大量的磁盘空间和时间......

Answer 3

Apparently it's not been updated is the message on open.Collab.net...

Date 2011-12-20 04:44:22 PST Message The community volunteer who provides the binary on our site has not updated it for Lion or SVN 1.7. All of the Mac packaging tools, like MacPorts and HomeBrew have updated and you can get it there. There is also a listing of places to get them here: http://subversion.ap ​ache.org/packages.ht​ml#osx