On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > 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. oh, i've built my share of rpms from source on fedora, that's not a problem. i'm just thinking of possible dependency issues. given how much newer the source rpm would be, i can only imagine what that new binary rpm might need in the way of newer dependencies that don't even exist under centos. i'll give it a shot and see what happens. thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================