This couldn’t be easier, all I did was run the following, once I figured out what flavor of Red Hat the IT team had installed on my machine.
prompt:$ rpm -i http://the.earth.li/pub/subversion/summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/rhel-4/bin/subversion-1.3.2-1.rhel4.i386.rpm
You can find SVN for your operating system here. Many thanks to Wijaya for helping me quickly determine my flavor of Red Hat in the blog post here.