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10/17/2004: "Subversion on Fedora Core 2"

I have installed Fedora Core 2 Linux on my main server at home, and when I went to re-install Subversion to host my repositories, I got a scare: I couldn't install the neon component that Subversion needs, due to:

[root@casper Linux]# rpm -Uvh subversion-1.0.6-1.fc1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        db42 >= 4.2.52 is needed by subversion-1.0.6-1
        libneon.so.24 is needed by subversion-1.0.6-1
        neon >= 0.24.7 is needed by subversion-1.0.6-1

No problem! Let me just get that db42 package and install it...

[root@casper Linux]# rpm -Uvh db42-4.2.52-0.1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        db4 = 4.2.52 is needed by (installed) pam-0.77-40
        db4 >= 4.1.25-11 is needed by (installed) openoffice.org-1.1.1-4

What?! All right, after a little chasing on Google got me nowhere, I decided to try something desperate, but as it turns out, logical.

[root@casper Linux]# yum install neon

Strangely enough, it worked, but notice the version it installed: 0.24.7-2.1. Ever so slightly more recent than the version 0.24.7-1 the Subversion site provides. That's one nice thing about using a package management system like yum: someone might just have fixed the problem for you!

After that point, installation proceeded well, not to mention the fact that although I had downloaded Subversion 1.0.6, yum installed version 1.0.8!