How do I kill the installation that's not letting me do this. Would a simple restart do? I just tried installing wine also and is giving me the same error message.

Indeed,there seems to be a lock. When I run that command from the terminal, this is what I get: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 6640. Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The ...

Well, it gets stuck on the first part of the installation. It is connected to my wireless network. It gets stuck on the first part: Installing yum-fastest-mirror. Does not get any further than that? It has been like that for two days. Any suggestions?

I am currently doing the installation on Fedora 12. Put the code and clicked on submit and it seems to be taking forever.

Does the pc have to be physically connected to one of the router's ports?