help on latex

[Pushparaj Shetty]

I have Fedora Core. I tried to run latex. 
I used psfig for including figures. It gave the following mesage:

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  New documents should use Standard LaTeX conventions and start
 with the \documentclass command.

 Compatibility mode is UNLIKELY TO WORK with LaTeX 2.09 style
 files that change any internal macros, especially not with
 those that change the FONT SELECTION or OUTPUT ROUTINES.

 Therefore such style files MUST BE UPDATED to use
          Current Standard LaTeX: LaTeX2e.
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kindly tell me how do I get the latest version of Latex (2.09) in Fedora