firefox and yum

"Paula J. Lindsay" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rhn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi everyone, I hope you can help me with this silly problem.  I'm 
working on a RHE 3 machine and I am trying to install yum
so I can yum down firefox.  Well, when I try to install yum (via rpm)  
there are too many dependencies/conflicts and the install
fails.  I finally gave up and downloaded a firefox package and I can't 
install that either.  I get this message:

(firefox-bin:1120): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: 

I am getting so frustrated because these were such simple tasks and I am 
just spinning my wheels.  Why is it so hard to install
these two programs.  Why doesn't the rpm that I download already have 
the libs and python that is needed.  I can't even
google the problem because I always end up where I downloaded the 
program in the first place.  Any help would be
dearly appreciated.  And, thanks in advance.
Paula

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