Question

On my working directory, I tried to check out the code as follows:

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mahout/trunk

But the system says:

zsh: command not found: svn

Does that mean that I did not install svn correctly. How to fix that?

Answer 1

More likely, it means that the svn executable is not on the system path. Create a symbolic link to it in /usr/bin

ln -s /full/path/to/executable/svn /usr/bin/svn

UPDATE:

I was going for the path of least resistance, but @derobert is right about root or sudo privileges needed for that. Never think about it, because I’m never a restricted user. Appending to PATH is probably the only way a restricted user can do it:

export PATH='$PATH:/full/path/to/svn/bin'

Ideally, that should go in one of your user preference startup scripts. It’s usually something like ~/.profile. In bash, it’s ~/.bash_rc or in some cases ~/.bash_profile. Not sure about in Zsh, though, but look for something along those lines.