How to install CVS server on Ubuntu

1) Login as root user and check that the software packages, or higher versions,are installed in your Server

gcc version 4.1.2

If not, please Install/upgrade the Packages by using the following commands as Examples.

Install G++ files:
#apt-get install g++

Install CVS files:
#apt-get install cvs

3. Create the User to install and compile the apache

#groupadd cvsd

#useradd -u 1010 -g cvsd -d /home/cvsd -m -s /bin/ksh -c “CVS Server” cvsd

If the folder cvsrepo does not exist, then create it ..

#mkdir cvsrepo

#chown –R cvsd:cvsd cvsrepo

Install the CVS server:Download the required following package

#wget http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/cvsd/cvsd-1.0.13.tar.gz

or you can also check out the latest version of cvsd in the current directory:

#cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@arthurenhella.demon.nl:/arthur co cvsd

#cvs update -dP

Extract the cvsd package and install by using the following steps.

$tar –zvxf cvsd-1.0.13.tar.gz

$cd /usr/src/cvsd-1.0.13

$./configure –prefix=/var/lib/cvsd/ \ /var/lib/cvsd/

CVSD Installation successfully complete $ cd /var/lib/cvsd

cvsd-buildroot /var/lib/cvsd and then initilize the repository

sudo cvs -d /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepo init

create a user and password

sudo cvsd-passwd /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepo rbalara

#vi /var/lib/cvsd/cvsrepo/CVSROOT/config

Change

“SystemAuto=no”

Test

cvs -d :pserver:bala@localhost:/cvsrepo login

cvs -d :pserver:bala@localhost:/cvsrepo checkout

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