I had just enough luck and money to find someone to load Fedora 18 onto my Windows XP partitioned ancient Dell desktop. Unfortunately, I am a newbie to almost everything Linux, having spent the last 11 years in Windows XP. I can't read or understand any code expressions, so I wouldn't even know how to install Yum, or the evidently easier to use Yum Extender, that supposed to have a GUI to help non-code writers like me install Yumex (see http://www.yumex.dk/)-much less VLC itself.
Isn't there a way that I can simply download VLC for Fedora 18 as a zip file or a package with a built-in installer that I can simply click on, thereby installing the program automatically-like I did in Windows XP?