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November 27, 2006
Subversion 1.4.2 on Linux (Ubuntu) not easy - not possible?
I'm disgusted that I cannot get a working version of Subversion on Ubuntu Linux (or any other version..).
The latest version of Subversion in the Ubuntu repositories is 1.3.2.
This means that it is easy peasy to install the latest version of the Subversion server on Windows an start using it - a 30 minute project, if that.
On Linux (Ubuntu 6.10) I have spent the last two f---g hours trying to build Subversion. I've inched past all the dependency problems and have finally fallen foul of some problem with apache portable libraries. Possibly.
I'm done for the moment, I really dont have the time to devote to nursing this into maturity.
Its a crying shame. The main source of info for attempting to build and install the latest version of Subversion (1.4.2) is here:
Install Subversion 1.4 in Dapper
I've given up on building from scratch and tried the kindly supplied package which of course doesn't do a damn thing as I am trying to install a Dapper package on Edgy. Feck.
Feck.
Back to Subversion 1.3 it is then until I have more time....sucks
Posted by dottie at 12:26 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 21, 2006
Getting Edgy - Moving away from Windows
I have had it with windows.
I know I have been threatening for a long time to do something about it I have still been chugging along on my development server and my main work laptop with Windows.
Well, the last windows update broke my setup and wasted three days trying to find workarounds that never panned out. Sometime during those three days I had an epiphany - I'm mad to base my business on the whims of Microsoft. Its that simple.
So I have ordered a brand new hard drive (the 80 gig I have for the system drive is getting old..) and I downloaded Ubuntu Edgy Eft.
I will be reinstalling the server OS using Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). This will allow me to use SSH, Subversion, Trac, Apache and all the rest of the non-Microsoft applications I use the most.
I am still an ASP porgrammer by trade and my live web server is Windows so to service that I will be installing Windows 2003 as a virtual machine using VMServer. That way I have the best of one world (Linux rocks! Fuck you Ballmer!, I'm not a crook) and no headaches from the dark side. Best of all, once I install Windows into the VMServer all I have to do is snapshot it and I will never have to install the bastard again.
I should have the new hard-drive this week so I'll post up a little tutorial of any bits I found difficult.
Posted by dottie at 9:40 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack
November 19, 2006
Windows Server 2003 and Cygwin
Windows. God Damn WIndows.
The latest update to Windows has broken Cygwin.
It has also broken me.
I have just ordered a new hard-drive and I will be installing Linux on that. Then I will be installing Server 2003 as a Virtual Machine on that.
Linux gives me all the Rsync and SSH goodness that I need and I can still connect to the Windows Server to do my ASP, ASP.NET development as required.
Posted by dottie at 4:08 PM | Comments (0)