SVN Not a working copy

I'm grinding my teeth here, trying to figure out the problem to this. I've done nothing but search for a few hours on how to do this properly, and everything gives me the same answer:

svnadmin create dir
cd dir
svn checkout https://path.to.server
svn status
svn update
svn add /path/to/dir/
svn commit -m "type message here"

No matter how many times I do this (I'm running Ubuntu 1开发者_如何学JAVA0.10, by the way), I keep getting a "path/to/dir/ is not a working copy". The path is just a link to a solution file and some .cs files in c# that I code in monodevelop. What's the problem here? Am I missing something?

The checkout works fine, but everything else is just giving me an error.

svnadmin create dir is to be used only to create a repo. Not a working copy. Don't use it.

Secondly, when you checkout, it would have created a folder within dir, cd into that and then do the rest of the commands. Or, use:

svn checkout https://path.to.server .

( note the . at end)