Install Subversion under RedHat Enterprise Linux4

This morning I tried to install Subversion 1.5.1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This turned out to be a slightly more complicated than just easy. Because I ran into some dependency issues.

I downloaded Subversion 1.5.1 at: http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/1.5.1/rhel-4/i386/.

Running rpm gave me the following depencency issues:

rpm -ihv subversion-1.5.1-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
apr >= 0.9.7 is needed by subversion-1.5.1-1.i386
apr-util >= 0.9.7 is needed by subversion-1.5.1-1.i386
libneon.so.27 is needed by subversion-1.5.1-1.i386
neon >= 0.26.1 is needed by subversion-1.5.1-1.i386

To solve this download the following libraries:

• The apr and apr-util version 0.9.12 packages at: http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/1.4.6/rhel-4/i386/
• The neon and neon-devel version 0.27.2-1 packages at http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/1.5.1/rhel-4/i386/

Summerset is one of the suppliers of the subversion binaries. I found that they did quite a good job on providing the necessary libraries for the different Linux flavors. At least the ones I needed. However, although subversion 1.5.1 needed the arp libraries, they were not found in the subversion/1.5.1/rhel-4 folder. So I fetched them from the subversion/1.4.6/rhel-4 folder.

Since subversion needed a specific neon-shared-object, I could not do it in one go, because at dependency check the system-object was not there. Therefor I first installed neon and neon-devel:

rpm -ihv neon-0.27.2-1.i386.rpm neon-devel-0.27.2-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:neon-devel ########################################### [ 50%]
2:neon ########################################### [100%]

Then the rest could be installed in one go:
rpm -Uhv subversion-1.5.1-1.i386.rpm apr-0.9.12-2.i386.rpm apr-util-0.9.12-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:apr ########################################### [ 33%]
2:apr-util ########################################### [ 67%]
3:subversion ########################################### [100%]