Basics of URPMI in Mandriva
If you’ve ever used apt-get in Debian or Ubuntu, yum in Fedora, or zypper in Suse, you’ll know that the killer feature makes software installation and upgrades amazingly easy. What we need is a tool built on top of RPM that does all the automatic dependency stuff for you like apt does. The Mandriva distribution contains just such a tool: URPMI. This is probably Mandriva’s most under-advertised feature, and easily the most important feature. With it, RPM package management is as easy as apt-get under Debian.
