Chapter 7. Package Management through Rpmdrake

Install Software
Selecting Packages to Install
Searching Packages
Updating Media
Remove Software
Mandrakelinux Update
The Software Media Manager
Package Management through the Command Line
Installing and Removing Packages
Media Management
Tricks and Recipes

Mandrakelinux uses the RPM packaging system and provides convenient tools to simplify even more packages installation, handling software dependencies automatically. The urpmi set of tools is command line based and discussed briefly at the end of this chapter; here we will concentrate on Rpmdrake: Mandrakelinux's graphical software installation tool.

Rpmdrake consists of different tools, which you access by choosing one of the entries of System+Configuration+Packaging in the main menu or by clicking on Software Management in the Mandrakelinux Control Center (see Figure 7.1, “Software Management in the Mandrakelinux Control Center”).

Figure 7.1. Software Management in the Mandrakelinux Control Center

Software Management in the Mandrakelinux Control Center

We recommend that you access Rpmdrake via the Mandrakelinux Control Center.