Please verify that you have installed the subversion client. As long as your Linux distribution has a subversion client that meets the required version for Rice, this should be sufficient. Please refer to the Sources for Required Software section of this Installation Guide for the download location and the required subversion client software version.
You can verify that you have the subversion client with this command:
rpm -qa | grep sub
If you have the subversion client installed, you will see something similar to this:
subversion-1.4.2-4.el5
After you have downloaded the ImpEx tool from the source code repository, log in as the non-authoritative user that you use to run the Tomcat server:
Go to the sub-directory, <downloaded dir>/trunk/impex, from which you downloaded the kul-cfg-dbs module.
Copy the impex-build.properties.sample file to your home directory, renaming the file to impex-build.properties.
Then, configure the file, impex-build.properties, for the Ant utilities to set up the database.