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Once SVN is installed on the server execute the following.
$ cd /path/to/svn/repos $ svnadmin create repositoryname
Change the owner of the repository directory and files.
chown -R www-data:subversion repositoryname
On the client, check out the new repository. I use TortoiseSVN so I created the directory, right click and select "SVN Checkout…". Select the repository "http://host/svn/repositoryname".