is there any easy way to install programs that i'm missing? urmpi?
 

Hello everyone! i heard there is an easy way to install programs on mandriva rather hten using ./configure or make, etc. Is this true? For instance I just untarded bittorando is there a way for me to easily install this program using mandriva? Thank you! i'm running KDE 3.4, i am a noob. :)
I heard one time this guy just typed in urmpi <name of file> and it installed everything for him, i was wondering if you can do this for all programs?

You must first configure urpmi database, go to and follow those steps. When you finish, just run as root (xxx is the program name ;) )
Or you can go to and find the RPM package for your Mandriva...

If you prefer a gui use rpmdrake (see menu->System->Configuration->Packaging) - its a frontend to urpmi. Be a bit careful with rpm.pbone.net to get a package specifically for your distro and remember that you'll have to search and download each and every dependency, whereas urpmi/RPMdrake does it all automatically for you.

OKay I thought i already did configure urpmi but maybe not when i went to that website and copied the code they gave me as root i'm getting this:
medium "jpackage" already exists
does that mean its already configured?

Yes but make sure you have main, contrib, plf-free and plf-nonfree as well. (See menu->System->Configuration->Packaging)