Please open the terminal application that you would commonly use. If a GUI is not present on your machine, then move on to the next step.
 Please type in "su -" followed by the password to the root account.


Only the Root user can update, or install things from the ports collection.
 You'll need to install SVN; So type in "cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion" and "make install clean"


If you're using pkg-ing, typing "pkg install subversion" will work too.
 You can type in "svn checkout https://svn0.us-east.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports" to connect the folder with subversion, and then "svn update /usr/ports" to update the ports collection

You can replace "us-east" above with either "us-west", or "eu" depending on your location.
If you have a GUI already installed.
One you have the terminal open (or if you're logged into your user and have no GUI).
After successfully logging into the root user.
After Subversion is installed.
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