Install Subversion
Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
To check: Run svn --version on the command line
Get the subversion binaries and not the source, if possible
If there are no binaries for your platform, get the source and use the configuration options --with-ssl and --with-libs
Extract to /opt (should create subversion-1.2.3)
Windows users will want to rename the extracted directory
Unix users will probably want to use a package for their flavor
Set environment variable: SUBVERSION_HOME=/opt/subversion-1.2.3
Add $SUBVERSION_HOME/bin to PATH