centos 5.5; yum broken; need command line subversion client (will be retrieving files from a remote repository)

Evidently, getting subversion would be a piece of cake, if only yum weren't broken. Moreo开发者_StackOverflow中文版ver, just about everywhere I search for info on installing subversion takes it for granted that yum is available for the task.

The story on yum is that, before I knew better, I upgraded python to 2.7 and am now getting the infamous "...No module named yum..." message in response to the yum command.

Of course, I'd like to have yum working; however, my immediate need is to get a subversion client going. How do I do this?

Thanks!

If yum is broken, you can still download the rpms from the repository mirrors manually and use the rpm command to install them.

You might have to have a few attempts with the raw rpm command to find out (and satisfy) all the svn package dependencies, but it's better than nothing at all.