If you would like to use the latest version of Subversion and prefer using the package manager like me, the following steps below will enable you to install Subversion 1.9 from the WanDisco repositories. At the time of writing, the latest version in the WanDisco repo is 1.9.1.
#!/bin/bash # download the GPG key of the repository and add it to apt: wget http://opensource.wandisco.com/wandisco-debian.gpg -O /tmp/wandisco-debian.gpg # add downloaded key to apt apt-key add /tmp/wandisco-debian.gpg # create apt sources file for wandisco repo echo "deb http://opensource.wandisco.com/debian/ wheezy svn19" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wandisco.sources.list # update apt & upgrade packages apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade