Problem installing packages FC2

From: anc (anc_at_nospam.co.uk)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 09:46:31 +0100

Im new to Fedora but not linux. I am trying to install xfce from the FC2
disks using yum but come across the following error:

[anc@orac yum]$ yum update xfce
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found
Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system.

The above base folder and header do not exist, so how do I create them?
I had a quick look at man yum but could not see how to create the headers.
Any help appreciated.

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