How To: Using Subversion

We allow developers to checkout copies of Omeka using anonymous Subversion access. If you're new to SVN, or have any specific question this guide can give you information about every command and help you through the process. To work, you have to have Subversion installed on your local machine. If you're not, visit the Subversion website and follow their directions.

Browsing the Omeka SVN directory, you can see folders for branches, plugins, tags, themes, and trunk among others. The tags folder contains all the stable releases of Omeka. To check out a stable release of Omeka for production use, try this checkout command:

svn co https://omeka.org/svn/tags/0.9.1.1/ omeka

This will make a directory called 'omeka' with all of the files you'll need. Substitute the version number for the latest version.

When a new version comes out, you would run an 'svn switch' command to upgrade to the latest version of Omeka.

If you want to contribute to development or keep up with bug fixes as they are made, you can check out one of the stable branches instead with the following command:

svn co https://omeka.org/svn/branches/stable-0.9/ omeka 

or you can check out the trunk at omeka.org/svn/trunk. Stable branches will only receive bug fixes and minor enhancements, whereas the trunk will have all the latest changes (and as a result, may not be stable enough for production use).

If you are using anything other than a tagged release, you can update your installation by going into the directory and running this command:

svn update

That will update all your files to the latest revision.