Haven't messed with Mandrake (Your info shows mnadrake so I'm making some assumptions). But reading through some information out on the WWW Mandrake uses something called
urpmi similar to YUM or APT-GET for updating packages.
You probably want to read the man pages on it.
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/urpmi.php3
We could go through compiling from source but I would explore this first.