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If you're running Ubuntu 8 ("Hardy") - a common setup for Slicehost servers including the one running this site - then you're probably still using SVN (client) v1.4.6. That's the latest version in apt-get with the standard libraries. But this post explains how to get 1.6. The only unexpected bit was a dependency on an Apache upgrade, but the whole process took less than 2 minutes, with less than 10 seconds of Apache downtime.