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Your denials are hilarious. Not only are there well known terms for these problems in Linux, called "dependency hell"

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linux+%22dependency+hell%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt

and "rpm hell"

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linux+%22rpm+hell%22&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-tab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt

According to many, you can't even cut and paste reliably between two applications running on the same version of Linux! Here's a plea on Slashdot on how to do it, that resulted in 800+ responses.

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/02/1832201&tid=189&tid=104&tid=4

LOL

What part of 'you should be using yum' was too much for you to get? I also said that installing straight RPM's can be a pain (as someone who has had to do that a bit on older distros I should know). YUM (and apt for the suse / debian folks) provides a very user friendly way to install new programs.

I have installed dozens of application by simply typing

yum install (application)

Nice way to try and ignore the actual package management systems and focus on putting packages on one at a time. gators problem (and I told him as much) was that he tried to do all the installs up front without putting a package manager on first (actually I would almost bet mandrake has yum or apt by default).