Installing Fedora RPMs in CentOS

I recommend to use Fedora EPEL instead:

“Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux
(EPEL) is a volunteer-based community
effort from the Fedora project to
create a repository of high-quality
add-on packages for Red Hat Enterprise
(RHEL) and its compatible spinoffs
such as CentOS or Scientific Linux.
Fedora is the upstream of RHEL and
add-on packages for EPEL are sourced
from the Fedora repository primarily
and built against RHEL.”

The binary RPMs of the latest Fedora release are built against much newer libraries and are therefore often not compatible with the older libraries of CentOS. If you want to try Fedora RPMs anyway (and if there is no EPEL alternative) I would get the Fedora Source RPM and try to recompile on CentOS (but often is will be difficult because of dependencies).

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