Update Meld Diff Tool

The meld diff tool comes as standard with RabbitVCS. Unfortunately, you only get version 1.5.3 with Ubuntu 12.04 by default. Unfortunately, I have not found a PPA yet for meld (fingers crossed for the webupd8 team). For the time being, use:

wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/meld/meld_1.8.4-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i meld_1.8.4-1_all.deb
rm meld_1.8.4-1_all.deb

This should upgrade you from 1.5.3 to 1.8.4.

Ubuntu 12.04 - Upgrade SVN (1.7.9)

Today I rolled back my distro from Ubuntu 13.04 to 12.04. This is because I was sick of all the stability/general-problems with Compiz, and I know they worked perfectly in 12.04. However this meant that my svn version was incompatible with all the code I had previously checked out. Rather than re-check out all the repos again, it is better to just upgrade svn as no doubt it has some new features/fixes as well.

If you are using Ubuntu 14.04, then ignore this tutorial.

Steps

Install this SVN PPA and upgrade (assuming you have already installed the 'subversion' package).
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:svn/ppa -y
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
For those running RabbitVCS. I highly recommend that you reboot at this point as the nautilus extension would not work for me until I did this (even after performing a killall nautilus). If it still does not work, try performing these:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_client-1.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsvn_client-1.so.1 /usr/lib/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0 /usr/lib/
sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1 /usr/lib/
It is working for me now after performing these, but as I did not try rebooting until afterwards, I am not sure if all/any of them are actually necessary.

Netbeans - Disable SVN

If you downloaded the 'full' version of netbeans and are struggling to figure out how to disable the SVN feature because you don't see it in plugins, that is because it has 'moved'. Just follow the steps shown below in the images.