Installing Subversion Using yum on CentOS 5 (Error: Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package subversion)

While attempting to install Subversion via yum today, I received the following error:

[root@sXXX ~]# yum install subversion
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
–> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
—> Downloading header for subversion to pack into transaction set.
subversion-1.4.2-2.el5.i3 100% |=========================| 42 kB 00:00
—> Package subversion.i386 0:1.4.2-2.el5 set to be updated
–> Running transaction check
–> Processing Dependency: libaprutil-1.so.0 for package: subversion
–> Processing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 for package: subversion
–> Processing Dependency: libneon.so.25 for package: subversion
–> Processing Dependency: libapr-1.so.0 for package: subversion
–> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
–> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
—> Downloading header for apr-util to pack into transaction set.
apr-util-1.2.7-6.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 7.3 kB 00:00
—> Package apr-util.i386 0:1.2.7-6 set to be updated
—> Downloading header for neon to pack into transaction set.
neon-0.25.5-5.1.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 6.7 kB 00:00
—> Package neon.i386 0:0.25.5-5.1 set to be updated
—> Downloading header for apr to pack into transaction set.
apr-1.2.7-11.i386.rpm 100% |=========================| 10 kB 00:00
—> Package apr.i386 0:1.2.7-11 set to be updated
–> Running transaction check
–> Processing Dependency: libpq.so.4 for package: apr-util
–> Processing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 for package: subversion
–> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
–> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
—> Downloading header for postgresql-libs to pack into transaction set.
postgresql-libs-8.1.11-1. 100% |=========================| 16 kB 00:00
—> Package postgresql-libs.i386 0:8.1.11-1.el5_1.1 set to be updated
–> Running transaction check
–> Processing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 for package: subversion
–> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package subversion

Steps to resolve this:

1. Download the perl(URI) with version greater than 1.17 using the following command.

wget http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/3/x86_64/os/Fedora/RPMS/perl-URI-1.30-4.noarch.rpm

2. Install the specified package using the follwing command.

rpm -i perl-URI-1.30-4.noarch.rpm

3. Install subversion using “yum”.

yum install subversion
You should now have successfully installed Subversion:

[root@sXXX ~]# svn help
usage: svn [options] [args]
Subversion command-line client, version 1.4.2.
Type ‘svn help ‘ for help on a specific subcommand.
Type ‘svn –version’ to see the program version and RA modules
or ‘svn –version –quiet’ to see just the version number.

Most subcommands take file and/or directory arguments, recursing
on the directories. If no arguments are supplied to such a
command, it recurses on the current directory (inclusive) by default.

Available subcommands:
add
blame (praise, annotate, ann)
cat
checkout (co)
cleanup
commit (ci)
copy (cp)
delete (del, remove, rm)
diff (di)
export
help (?, h)
import
info
list (ls)
lock
log
merge
mkdir
move (mv, rename, ren)
propdel (pdel, pd)
propedit (pedit, pe)
propget (pget, pg)
proplist (plist, pl)
propset (pset, ps)
resolved
revert
status (stat, st)
switch (sw)
unlock
update (up)

Subversion is a tool for version control.
For additional information, see http://subversion.tigris.org/

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 7:17 pm

error: xenconsole: Could not open tty `/dev/pts/2′: No such file or directory

Error: xenconsole: Could not open tty `/dev/pts/2′: No such file or directory

If you come across this error when using xm console, then you can do the following:

In that case, make sure that xenconsoled is running.

ps aux |grep xenconsoled

If is not running, just execute

xenconsoled

Now you should be able to login to the VPS using xm console.

What is xenconsoled? xenconsoled is the daemon which enables you to console into each virtual server on a Xen host.

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 6:58 pm

cPanel – Hostname A Entry Missing!

This is common error on new cPanel/WHM servers or virtual dedicated servers (VDS):

Once you get the POP-UP window for the error, add the ‘Hostname A Entry’ by clicking the ‘Add’ button in the POP-UP, after verifying the IP address details that it shows. This should be done just once.

This error message will keep coming up until the hostname of the server has started resolving to the correct IP address and the DNS propagation has been completed.

It seems like WHM doesn’t take into account the /etc/hosts entry.

Filed under: Uncategorized by — aaron @ 6:53 pm