Dev talk:2.5/Doc/Building Blender/Linux/get the source
perhaps it should be noted that if you get an authentication error such as:
"... can't checkout /!svn/vcc/default': Could not read response body: SSL error: Decryption has failed."
it can be resolved by adding " --no-auth-cache"
to the svn chenckout command like this: "svn co *address-to-trunk* --no-auth-cache" ? --fktt