Default CentOS 5.2 yum repositories are still on Sybversion 1.4.x branch, so if you need the latest Subversion client, you are out of luck... or not, if you read this blog post :) This quick tutorial will show you how to upgrade in less than 5 minutes.
We will use RPMForge repos for the upgrade.
- Download and install proper RPMForge repo RPM for your server architecture (64bit or 32bit) from RPMForge website.
- Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo and change
enabled=1 to "0". We do not want this repo to be enabled by default, because an accidental "svn update" will update all your packages to bleeding-edge, test-quality versions. RPMForge has many experimental rpms.
- Run:
yum --enablerepo=rpmforge check-update subversion and make sure the version of subversion you are looking for is available. It should show you something like:
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