How to install yum in fedora

Try the following steps,

wget http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/download/2.0/yum-2.0.7.tar.gz
tar -xvzf yum-2.0.7.tar.gz
cd yum-2.0.7

./configure
make
make install


MAKE SURE TO DOWNLOAD THE CORRECT YUM VERSION:

* yum 3.0.1 - Stable Release, Python 2.4+ and rpm 4.3+ systems only. Requires repomd repositories. Works under FC5, FC6 and rawhide.
* yum-metadata-parser 1.0.2 - C-based metadata parser to quickly parse xml metadata into sqlite databases.
* yum 2.6.X - Stable Release, Python 2.3+ and rpm 4.1.1+ systems requires repomd repositories: 2.6.1 latest known to work with some FC3, FC4, FC5, RHEL4 and compatible distributions
* yum 2.4.X - Stable Release, Python 2.3+ and rpm 4.1.1+ systems requires repomd repositories: 2.4.2 latest known to work with: FC3, FC4, RHEL4 and compatible distributions
* yum 2.0.X - for python 2.1+ and rpm 4.1.1-4.3.1 systems: 2.0.8 latest
* yum 1.0.X - for python 1.5.2+ and rpm 4.0.4 systems: 1.0.3 latest - considered obsolete

if you are not sure what version of python you have installed, send the following command to see your installed phython version:

python