Mandrake update is too frustrating to use..
As a mortal user would, I clicked on SELECT ALL (which doesnt work, btw,
unless if you first click on one of the items listed) and clicked on DO
UPDATES. It gave me a warning about one of the packages, I clicked on FORCE.
It gave me a page of errors from rpm, blah blah conflicting with blah blah.
I think Mandrake Update needs more intelligence to figure out these
conflicts. If it's a new lib* it needs, it should fetch and install it FIRST,
before attempting to install an application, for example. -turgut