TortiseSVN svn+ssh Error: Unable to connect to a repository at URL … Network connection closed unexpectedly

Question

I\'m having problems accessing an SVN repository using TortoiseSVN 1.7.8.

The SVN repository is on a CentOS 6.3 box with openssh 5.3p1:81.el6 and appear

Answer 1

I ran into this problem when moving my old svn repository to a new Ubuntu 20.04 server and was trying to checkout the repo from Windows (with tortoisesvn). I finally realized the new server didn't have svn installed on it and it is needed to serve the repository. Simple fix for me was:

sudo apt install subversion