Assumptions:
You already have SVN installed on your linux server. If you do not know if it is installed, just type command
which svn
If this returns a valid path as output, then it means that svn is installed on your linux box. If not, you need to install it. Installing subversion is very easy (for most distributions) and ample documentation is available on the web. You can start with http://subversion.tigris.org.
Four steps to complete svn repository creation on linux
log onto server as root
I prefer to have all svn repositories in one directory for better organization and easy maintenance. So next step for me would be ..........................
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