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.