thanks to higepon for how to install subversion 1.4.2 on ubuntu edgy

worked like a charm

http://higepon.blogspot.com/2006/12/install-subversion-142-to-ubuntu-edgy.html

install subversion 1.4.2 to Ubuntu Edgy

sudo apt-get remove libsvn0
sudo apt-get remove subversion
sudo apt-get install libneon25 libneon25-dev
sudo apt-get install libapr1.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libaprutil1.0-dev
sudo apt-get install libdb4.2-dev
sudo apt-get install libdb4.2
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-0
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
sudo apt-get install libldap-dev
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.2.tar.bz2
tar vxf subversion-1.4.2.tar.bz2
cd subversion-1.4.2
./configure –with-ssl
make
sudo make install