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• A recent JDK, with strong cryptography enabled
• SSH (or PuTTY on Windows)
• Kerberos
• Subversion with kerberos authentication
• Maven
• Trustores
• The link to the Development Moves component registry.

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Get as recent a version of the JDK as MIT IS&T support, and install the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength FOR THAT JDK. Make sure you get the JDK, and not just the JRE. Also make sure that the JDK is the FIRST java found in your path, and that you have the System environment variable JAVA_HOME pointing to that JDK. To install the JCE, simply backup %JAVA_HOME%/jre/lib/security/local_policy.jar and %JAVA_HOME%/jre/lib/security/US_export_policy.jar with the copies in the JCE zip file. For my windows jdk, the location was C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_29/jre/lib/security.

SSH setup

SSH on Ubuntu

type sudo apt-get install subversion

SSH on Windows

Download PuTTY (e.g from here)
Make a note of the path (for example C:/Program Files (x86)/PuTTY

At this stage you must be able to type C:/Program Files (x86)/PuTTY/plink svn.mit.edu and get a connection. The connection will look something like the following, until you hit CTRL-C

Last login: Wed Nov 30 12:22:56 2011 from west-ninetytwo-fourty.mit.edu

RHN kickstart on 2009-01-14

( success ( 2 2 ( ) ( edit-pipeline svndiff1 absent-entries commit-revprops depth log-revprops partial-replay ) ) )

Subversion

Subversion on Ubuntu

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