YUMmy!!!

The New Fedora Core distro is out viz.Fedora Core 6.Like it the earlier versions it still sucks as far as features are concerned,especially media players.
Fortunately it comes with a very handy tool for installing RPMs from an online repositories.Its called
'yum' (Yellow Dog Updater,Modified).Using 'yum', installing RPMs is a breeze.

Here's something to get you started with 'yum' :
1.Before you can install from online repositories ,add support for them on your system .Do the following in your terminal ,in the super user mode of course ,

# rpm -ihv http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/6/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm
32 bit version:
# rpm -ihv http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/livna-release-6-1.noarch.rpm
64 bit version:
# rpm -ihv http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/x86_64/livna-release-6-1.noarch.rpm

You can browse the packages available there at http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/ and http://zod.freshrpms.net/.

2.Now you can use yum in the following manner to install new packages ,
#yum install package_name1[package_name2][package_name3].....[package_nameN]

You can use the '-y' if you dont wanna answer y/n questions

3.You can also use yum to update existing packages,

#yum update package_name1[package_name2][package_name3]...[package_nameN]
If no package name is specified yum will update all installed packages

4.Similarly the command to remove packages is
#yum remove package_name1[package_name2][package_name3]....[package_nameN]
"erase" can also be used instead of "remove".
Apart from this are a lot of options for searching packages ,group install etc.Go check out the man page.

One of the bugs that I had with the yum version that ships with FC6 occurs when an instance of yum terminates improperly, giving the following error everytime "yum" is run,
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running. Aborting.

To avoid this please update to the latest version of yum before using it..i.e
#yum update yum