Installing CVS Open Source Version Control on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

As with most software for linux/ubuntu, you have two options when installing CVS on Ubuntu 8.04:

1 - Install the package provided by the distributor of the operating system: to do this you just need to run the following command from a terminal.

sudo apt-get install cvs

This will install the CVS package provided by Ubuntu, which might not necessarily be the latest version of CVS, but will generally be a good/stable option.

OR

2 - Install the latest version of the software from the developers. The steps will obviously vary per application. For CVS, the details for installing from source can be found on the CVS version control website.

Once the package has been successfully installed, you should be able to use the "cvs" command from the command line.