Since many people complain that wizards do not help to understand their system, here is a quick summary of this wizard actions, and how to do the same by hand : 1) subversion repository creation ( if it do not exist ) $ svnadmin create --fs-type fsfs $DIRECTORY fsfs was chosen over bdbd because it is more robust, according to trac developers. 2) trac repository creation $ trac-admin $TRAC_REPOSITORY_PATH initenv $PROJECT_NAME 3) integration with tracd in order to use your new trac project, you need to add it to tracd config file, in /etc/sysconfig/tracd. All you need is to add it to PROJECT, and reload tracd, with service tracd restart.