Ubuntu 14.10: Install Subversion 1.7.x

As of Ubuntu 14.10, the default subversion package from the repos is version 1.8.  I will underline the steps required to install Subversion 1.7.x for Ubuntu based systems here. I needed 1.7.x for compatibility reasons. To begin with, I could not find any ppa that had subversion Ubuntu package for version 1.7. Hence I had ...