FTP Server help

[TacticalFart]

I'm trying to set up an FTP Server and I'm having a little trouble. I'm currently using YDL (but if need be I'll switch to anything but Ubuntu). What I want to do is use my PS3 to download crap from the internet (torrent, irc, whatever) and then download it to my external hard drive. I've gotten through my skull that I can't connect my drive to the PS3. Dunno why, just can't. So to get around this I am trying to set up an FTP server so I can download my swag via the server to my drive, a la my laptop. I've used yum to try and download the programs, but when I used run command and the name of the app, the run command window disappears and nothing happens. Anyone know what I can do to make this happen?

P.S. I made sure to go after server apps, not clients.

If I could I would like to set up an fserv in IRC. Then maybe I could access my (more important) files no matter where I go. Then I could just skip the ftp server altogether. I would like to go this route if possible, but whatever.