svnsync command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

svnsync: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: svnsync: command not found

Solutions to svnsync: command not found

How To Fix svnsync: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu svnsync is provided by subversion package.

subversion is:

Apache Subversion, also known as svn, is a centralised version control system. Version control systems allow many individuals (who may be distributed geographically) to collaborate on a set of files (source code, websites, etc). Subversion began with a CVS paradigm and supports all the major features of CVS, but has evolved to support many features that CVS users often wish they had.

This package includes the Subversion client (svn, svnsync), repository administration tools (svnadmin, svnlook) and a network server (svnserve).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install subversion

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install subversion.

sudo apt -y install subversion

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install subversion

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix svnsync command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.