Was sent to this link to find fedora Subversion binaries

[Karsten Wade]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:54:08PM -0500, Ubell, Chaz wrote:
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> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/subversion

Chaz:

I'm not sure why that link didn't work -- that is, I'm not sure if
that is the format of the path one might expect in the package
database system.  The database (PackageDB) is really meta-data about
the packages:  where they've been built, by whom, related bug reports,
etc.

What I wanted to offer was that while you *can* find the package
through that web interface[1], that isn't really the way you would
normally install software for Fedora or any of the Linux distributions
derived from it (such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux.)

Binary packages are installed by the root (admin) user or a user with
root privileges, using either 'yum' on the command line or "System >
Administration > Add/Remove Software" on the GUI desktop.  The same
system can also be used to just download a package.

If you want more information, the guides here should covere it:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org.

Good luck - Karsten

[1] You may have found this, but from the broken URL above I did this:

1. Left column click on 'Packages'.
2. Search box for 'subversion', click on result.
3. The resulting page has a lot of metadata.  At the top is a link to
   'Build Status'.
4. The resulting information page, which is generated by a different
   web app (koji) has links to various build versions of the package.
5. Clicking on a version takes to a page about that build and it
   includes links to the source and binary RPM packages for various
   hardware architectures.

Be aware that if you download and install a package manually using the
'rpm' command, you will have to resolve all the need for other
packages (dependencies) by hand -- a tedious and difficult task.  This
is handled for you by 'yum', which is used by the graphical tool as
well as command line to resolve, fetch, and install package
dependencies.

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