Comments on: How to Install Subversion on FH CentOS 5 (it should be easy, but isn’t)

By: Kipp

Kipp — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:38:16 +0000

Worked for me, too. I removed perl* from the exclusions, then installed subversion from the WHM Install a Package applet with no problems. Thanks, David!

By: Santosh

Santosh — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:12:01 +0000

David’s advice worked for me too. Thanks David!
I am using CentOS on a VPS server (with cPanel).

By: David

David — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:45:47 +0000

Just a quick bit of info for anyone who comes across the same problem:

I solved it by temporarily removing perl* from the exclusions list, using ’sudo yum install subversion’, then re-adding perl* to the exclusions list

Everything installed perfectly ok, and cPanel is safe!

By: Tony Cook

Tony Cook — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:23:07 +0000

I had a similar problem with installing subversion on a Cpanel mangled RHEL install. Disabling the excludes line in yum.conf temporarily allowed perl-URI and subversion to be installed successfully.

I copied /etc/yum.conf to ~/yum-sane.conf, commented out the excludes line and did “sudo yum -c yum-sane.conf install perl-URI” which installed that package, and then “sudo yum install subversion” to finish the installation.

By: anelson

anelson — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:04:27 +0000

I’m pretty sure excluding the package from YUM is why I couldn’t install it with YUM. I’m not sure why the RPM failed; I assume some idiosyncracy of either YUM or RPM that I don’t quite get.

On the one hand I understand why cpanel does this, as any package updates that break cpanel will be treated by customers as a cpanel error. However, this seems a very heavy-handed way of solving the problem. I would think cpanel could just install itself with its own copies of its various dependencies, running just the right version to get cpanel to work, and not leave the entire box relegated to hoping cpanel will ship perl-URI or whatever.

By: Jay Ward

Jay Ward — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:32:05 +0000

Cpanel excludes those because it manages the updates to those packages, in order to prevent them from causing conflicts with cpanel’s way of doing things.

However, those exclusions don’t have anything to do with the errors you are getting in installing subversion. You can try removing the perl exclusion and then install the packages, but I am willing to bet you will have the same problems.

The only way I have found to get perl-URI to install is by downloading the RPM and installing it. Where you had some dependencies fail when you tried that, I would try to YUM install those dependencies, and if that doesn’t work, trace down their RPMs and install them that way.

It’s gay, I know. But that is why they pay linux admins the somewhat big bucks.