Robert P. J. Day wrote:
what is the proper approach to install on centos 5.4 a package that's newer than the currently supported one? at the moment, AFAICT, the latest "poppler-utils" package for centos is 0.5.4. however, the source is up to version 0.12:
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
which matches the current fedora version, but that's not surprising since, naturally, fedora zips right along keeping up with that sort of thing.
however, i have a case where it's important that a newer version of poppler-utils (and, consequently) poppler be installed on a centos 5.4 box. someone has claimed he's done it by (gack! choke!) installing the fedora package. that just creeps me out. in any case, what would be the proper solution under centos? is there a "rawhide"/dev equivalent for centos? thanks.
You could get an SRPM from fedora and tryo to "rpmbuild --rebuild" it. Since poppler is a library, you may have to also rebuild any packages that depend on it (evince, poppler-utils and xfig on my system, maybe others on yours). You should do this as non-root, check out the centos wiki and list archive for details on that.