yum 도 사용하기 힘들기 때문에 소스를 컴파일해서 설치해서 사용해야 합니다.

설치를 하다 보면 APR(Apache Portable Runtime) 패키지가 없어서 아래와 같이 컴파일 에러가 납니다.

[root@guide1 subversion-1.7.4]# ./configure
configure: Configuring Subversion 1.7.4
configure: creating config.nice
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
configure: Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library configuration
checking for APR... no
configure: WARNING: APR not found
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library cannot be found.
Please install APR on this system and supply the appropriate
--with-apr option to 'configure'

or

get it with SVN and put it in a subdirectory of this source:

svn co \
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/branches/1.3.x \
apr

Run that right here in the top level of the Subversion tree.
Afterwards, run apr/buildconf in that subdirectory and
then run configure again here.

Whichever of the above you do, you probably need to do
something similar for apr-util, either providing both
--with-apr and --with-apr-util to 'configure', or
getting both from SVN with:

svn co \
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr-util/branches/1.3.x \
apr-util

configure: error: no suitable apr found
[root@guide1 subversion-1.7.4]#

이런 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 최신 버전이 아닌 1.3.x 버전을 사용하면 해결이 가능합니다.

아래의 경로에서 다운로드 가능합니다.

http://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.3.2.tar.gz

[root@guide1 root]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla)
[root@guide1 root]# svn --version
svn, version 1.3.2 (r19776)
compiled Apr 3 2012, 15:09:18

Copyright (C) 2000-2006 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV) protocol.
- handles 'http' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
- handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
- handles 'file' scheme

참고사이트 : http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-06/0713.shtml