Yummy

yum (Yellow dog Updater, Modified) is designed to update RPM files more or less easily, like Debian's apt-get. It seems to work OK, as long as you do

# yum list

as root to get things started. I used it to load up the ttfonts (Asian True Type Fonts) packages. It would have been better doing this from the CDs, as the download was painfully slow.

For what it's worth, here's my /etc/yum.conf file:

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=fedora-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
 
[base]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-$releasever
 
[updates-released]
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates
baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-$releasever
 
[freshrpms]
name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
 
#[updates-testing]
#name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Unreleased Updates
#baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/testing/fedora-core-$releasever