I never ran into that particular error. I ran Mandriva for years as my
SlimServer, and setup was always a-typically hard.

You should be able to use MCC to remove slimserver. But there is a ton
of stuff that requires perl, so removing perl may be infeasible.

The initial versions of Mandriva (back when it was Mandrake) were eazy,
but each release seemed to leave out more things, and make it harder. It
took a while for me to realise that you had to install lots of
development tools to get it to work.

About six months ago, I started moving my desktops to Ubuntu, and even
bought a laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed. For my servers, I'm using
pure debian, since Ubuntu and many more are Debian-based. I like the
pure set up for servers as it skips all the eyecandy that Ubuntu has.
For most of my servers, the video card is way too lame to run any
eyecandy.

Debian's apt-get works as powerfully as urpmi
and Synaptic is a nice GUI at least as nice as MCC's GUI for installing
packages and their required prerequisites.

Have you considered switching? The debian 'net install' is a quick CD
to download and start with, it installs all the packages from the 'net,
much like Mandriva.


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