I tried to install subversion on Redhat(9) linode, but I was able to run it as I got an error from berkeley db.
It was mentioned in the documentation of subversion that the needed berkeley db does not work with some modified kernels on redhat. I tried the different kernels and nothing worked.
When I tried fedora with the 2.6 linode kernel, subversion worked. But mysql stopped working on the combination.

Does anybody know how to get both subversion and mysqk working ?

Thanks,

asult

Hi there. I also had troubles getting subversion to work on my Linode, which runs RedHat 9. I solved this problem by compiling my own version of db4 which works on RedHat 9 with subversion. I can't remember what exactly I had to do to get it to work - I might have had to mess with the spec file a bit; it's been a while, but I do know that these RPMs work.

I have made the RPMs available at:

http://www.ischo.com/db4/db4-4.0.14-20.i386.rpm
http://www.ischo.com/db4/db4-devel-4.0.14-20.i386.rpm
http://www.ischo.com/db4/db4-utils-4.0.14-20.i386.rpm

You can download these and use rpm -Uvh to upgrade to them. Should fix your problem.

You should test your MySQL after upgrading to those RPMs as well, as I do not run MySQL and can't guarantee that they work with it. But I think they should ...

Best wishes,
Bryan

Bryan,

Thank you very much, both subversion and Mysql are now working.
Really appreciate it.

asult

Small bit of advice ...

When distributing RPMs that are not with the distro shipped with, it is suggested that these RPMs be tagged with a different version naming scheme. Essentially all you have to do is add your initials to the %define release statement.

Example:

db4-4.0.14-20.i386.rpm

becomes ...

db4-4.0.14-20bji.i386.rpm

This way, when someone wants to upgrade the distribution or something, they can easily do "rpm -qa | grep bji" to see which non-standard RPMs might be problematic.

Bill Clinton

Thank you for the good advice. I will do this in future even for my own RPMs, so that I can better keep track of which ones I have built myself.