Every since I started to host my websites (thus, the present blog!) on GoDaddy, my (web-)life became a joy. If GoDaddy’s pros are countless, there is certainly one annoying con and it’s the absence of an SVN client.

The easiest way to circumvent this shortcoming is to upload into your GoDaddy’s account a binary of an SVN client. We simply do this because, GoDaddy does not provide a compiler so, building SVN from source is not possible. Fortunately, CollabNet provides a collection of SVN binaries for a wide range of OS.

First, you need to gather some infos about your host OS (type and bit-ness). We first issue the following command (on your GoDaddy machine) to figure out the OS name:

cat /etc/*release*

In my case the result was CentOS 5.6. Now to figure out whether the kernel is a 32 or a 64 bits, the easiest way is to either use the ‘uname -m‘ command or:

getconf LONG_BIT