Wednesday 21 January 2009

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:
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%]

So I now start off with creating my repository.
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6 comments:

  1. Tingting9 February 2009 at 10:57

    Thanx for your guide - I had to go through a bit more to get it all done. Here is my sequence of things to do - note that I actually had to dump a few devel packages.

    wget http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/1.5.5/rhel4/i386/subversion-1.5.5-1.i386.rpm
    wget http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/1.5.5/rhel4/i386/apr-0.9.12-2.i386.rpm
    wget http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/1.5.5/rhel4/i386/apr-util-0.9.12-1.i386.rpm
    wget http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/1.5.5/rhel4/i386/neon-0.27.2-1.i386.rpm
    wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/compat-db-4.3.29-2.fc7.i386.rpm
    wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/compat-openldap-2.3.34_2.2.29-0.fc7.i386.rpm
    wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/releases/7/Everything/i386/os/Fedora/openldap-2.3.34-0.fc7.i386.rpm
    rpm -e openldap-devel-2.3.27-8.el5_2.4.i386 apr-util-devel-1.2.7-7.el5.i386
    rpm -ivh *.rpm

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  2. Unknown5 May 2009 at 16:44

    useful stuff.

    Just for completeness, if anyone reading this gets the error 'file /usr/lib/libapr-0.so.0 from install of apr-0.9.12-2 conflicts with file from package apr-0.9.4-24.9' or similar, you need to run rpm with the --force option, i.e.
    rpm -ih --force apr-0.9.12-2.i386.rpm (and so forth for the other packages)

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  3. Erich18 June 2009 at 21:07

    This did the trick for me!

    Thank you

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  4. Vojtech Vitek (V-Teq)1 October 2009 at 17:31

    Thank you for this post. It saved me at least an half of hour of my life.

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  5. Lisa16 December 2009 at 17:46

    Hi,
    The urls that you mentioned in your post (very, very helpful btw) have changed slightly. Here is the new and correct url:
    http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/1.5.5/rhel4/i386/

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  6. Ralph Lauren6 December 2013 at 14:34

    Thanks for the guide! Very usefull

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