Where is the Subversion executable located

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I've installed Subversion via the command line. But I need to find the executable to point to it in my IDE. Do you know where it is located in the Ubuntu file system?

Did you try whereis svn ? – Nitin Venkatesh Feb 20 '13 at 15:01 — Nitin Venkatesh, Feb 20 '13 at 15:01
Executables are usually in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. – mikewhatever Feb 20 '13 at 15:01 — mikewhatever, Feb 20 '13 at 15:01
I was attempting to use the find command – Ted Feb 20 '13 at 15:03 — Ted, Feb 20 '13 at 15:03

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 20 '13 at 15:22

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The command which will tell you where a command is found in your current environment - it may be a better choice than whereis, since it searches the path of your current shell, rather than a fixed set of paths.

Usage is:

$ which svn
/usr/bin/svn

edited Feb 20 '13 at 15:22

BuZZ-dEE

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answered Feb 20 '13 at 15:06

Warren

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it says it's in usr/bin/svn and in dolphin file managers it's there but intellji rider refuses to load or even list it in it's file explorer. – Shadowblitz16 Sep 12 '22 at 03:15

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 20 '13 at 15:03

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A quick whereis svn gives me the following paths:

nits@excalibur:~$ whereis svn
svn: /usr/bin/svn /usr/bin/X11/svn /usr/share/man/man1/svn.1.gz

So, there you have it, it's at /usr/bin/svn

answered Feb 20 '13 at 15:03

Nitin Venkatesh

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BuZZ-dEE · Answer 3 · 2013-02-20T15:51:32.680

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Another solution is to get the binary location from the Subversion package:

dpkg -L subversion | grep bin | grep '\<svn$'

Output:

/usr/bin/svn

edited Feb 20 '13 at 15:51

answered Feb 20 '13 at 15:26

BuZZ-dEE

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Where is the Subversion executable located

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