I'm not familiar with Mandriva, as I use Fedora almost exclusively. Fedora, like Mandriva, is RPM-based. I use a program called yum to manage my software. It is extremely easy to use. Also, I believe that there is a graphical version of it called GYUM as well, but I haven't used it.
170 posted on 05/04/2006 6:56:17 AM PDT by ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)