Building apr Download apr : http://apache.skazkaforyou.com/apr/apr-1.4.6.tar.bz2 rpmbuild -tb apr-1.4.x.tar.bz2 It will most likely complain about dependencies, some silly message like: expat-devel is needed by apr-1.4.6 To get rid of these messages, install all required dependencies by running: yum install expat-devel Then make sure to ru [...]