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I want to update my emacs on CentOS 5.5 to 23 but I can't find any rpms or yum repos that have it?

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You could grab the source RPMS from a recent Fedora (or RHEL6) release and then rebuild them yourself.

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grab them from where? I can't find them anywhere I have been searching Google for the last hour with no luck. – Jarrod Roberson Jun 23 '11 at 17:49
From a Fedora mirror. Try searching for fedora mirrors. This will get you to a source for all Fedora packages, such as mirror.seas.harvard.edu/fedora/linux/releases/15/Fedora/source/…. – larsks Jun 23 '11 at 17:57
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The latest version of Emacs on RHEL5 is 21. Essentially, RHEL/CentOS is aimed at the enterprise server market, which is far more concerned with stability than bleeding edge functionality.

See this other post for a bit more explanation.

--Christopher Karel

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I know all this, I am looking for a 3rd party repository that has an up to date emacs rpm that I can point yum at ... – Jarrod Roberson Jun 23 '11 at 19:55
I'd personally avoid that sort of thing. Utilizing third party repositories can easily get Yum into dependency loops, making upgrades extremely difficult. I'd recommend just compiling from source. – Christopher Karel Jun 23 '11 at 20:00
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