You should find a package named 'subversion-deps-1.x.x.tar.gz' at the same place that you downloaded the Subversion (eg. subversion-1.x.x.tar.gz). Then type: $ tar xzvf subversion-1.x.x.tar.gz $ tar xzvf subversion-deps-1.x.x.tar.gz $ cd subversion-1.x.x This will place 'apr', 'apr-util', 'neon ...