I have Mandrake 8.0 loaded on my system. I loaded it by downloading two ISOs. One could buy a boxed pro pack set for $70.00 (contains 7 CDROMs). These CDROMs contain a lot of the software that I would like (but not all). The nice thing about the software on these CDs is that they all install without *any* problems. Now it seems to me that there must be someplace on the Internet where I could find RPMs that will install on a Mandrake system with little problem. Is this true or is the only way to get software that installs on a Mandrake 8.0 system is to buy a boxed set from Mandrake? In the past I have tried to download RPMs for use on Mandrake 7.1 and basically everything eventually got all screwed up. Also there seems to be a mess trying to get all of the dependencies taken care of... Is this just the normal Linux experience? Must one accept only software from the Operating System supplier or set one self to an arduous process of figuring out all the ends and outs of Linux and the arbitrary decisions of the many different people that put RPMs together? Kent
