This is killing me. I can't figure out how to use these utilities. I'm running Fedora Core 1. I've installed (although I think I may have already had them) both yum and apt as well as synaptic. As far as I understand, Synaptic is a gui interface with apt.

Yum, from what I gather, is preferrable to apt.

I went into the /etc/yum.conf, deleted what was there, and added the following:

Code:
[fedora-us-1]
  name=Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror
  baseurl=http://ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/fedora.us//fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os
  [fedora-us-1-updates]
  name=Fedora Core 1 updates -- Fedora US mirror
  baseurl=http://ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/fedora.us//fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates
  [fedora-us-1-stable]
  name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror
  baseurl=http://ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/fedora.us//fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
Then I tried to run the following:
Code:
[John@localhost John]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost John]#  yum install xmms-1.2.8-1.i386.rpm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 60, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "yummain.py", line 123, in main
  File "yummain.py", line 70, in parseCmdArgs
  File "config.py", line 48, in __init__
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/ConfigParser.py", line 233, in read
    self.__read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/ConfigParser.py", line 472, in __read
    raise e
ConfigParser.ParsingError: File contains parsing errors: /etc/yum.conf
        [line  2]: '  name=Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror\n'
        [line  3]: '  baseurl=http://ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/fedora.us//fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/os\n'
        [line  4]: '  [fedora-us-1-updates]\n'
        [line  5]: '  name=Fedora Core 1 updates -- Fedora US mirror\n'
        [line  6]: '  baseurl=http://ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/fedora.us//fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/updates\n'
        [line  7]: '  [fedora-us-1-stable]\n'
        [line  8]: '  name=Fedora Linux (stable) for Fedora Core 1 -- Fedora US mirror\n'
        [line  9]: '  baseurl=http://ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/fedora.us//fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable\n'
[root@localhost John]#
OK.. so now what? It obviously didn't work. How do I use this utility? I have rpms downloaded and waiting to be installed due to dependency problems. In explicit terms, how do I use the yum utility to solve dependencies and install the rmp properly? Do I not have it configured properly?

I've been to the Duke University yum website and tried to follow what t told me to do, but basically, I haven't found much help on the web. I've tried google.com/linux searches as well as justlinux, LJR PETs as well as other sources. They all assume the reader has more knowledge of Linux and command line than I have.

Thanks to anyone who can help explain this in PLAIN ENGLISH~ ;)

-John