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I had the same experience. Rustling RPMs was a nightmare back in the day. In fact, it's what moved me from some redhat (SUSE?) back in the day to mandrake linux.

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> Rustling RPMs

fyi the term is actually "rassling", unless referring to stealing rpms from other ranchers

That'll git ya a necktie party sure as shootin'.

What I did with rpms definitely felt criminal.

"Wrangling" is also acceptable

But Mandrake Linux also used RPMs.

Mandrake and Mageia use urpmi. It's a tool similar to apt, yum and zypper. It has been in existence since 1999. It can be used to install packages and also to upgrade a complete system, it will take care of dependencies for you.

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