Kind of an odd questoin, but here it is.

I installed Mandrake 9.1 a few days ago (used it before, but needed space so I had to delete it.

So now I'm going Linux full time. The problem is every program I want to install has a freaking dependency. And I never seem to have it.

So my question is, for a boot camp like me, are there things I should have chosen durning install that will fill in some of these holes that I have? So I'm not having to scour the net for 6 dependency's to install one little program?

Space really isn't an issue. I have my / partition set to 10 gig, so should I just choose everything? All the libs, all the dev tools? I want to get AMSN working, all the eye candy things from KDE-look. I want the most out of my OS, but it's like swiss cheese and it's not easy to fill in the holes when you don't know what your looking for.

Any help would be appreciated.

Use urpmi, the Mandrake package manager. urpmi automatically resolves dependencies. I don't use Mandrake, so I don't know any more than that, but search this site or google for "urpmi", or at a command prompt type "man urpmi"

Yeah, do what spurious says.

Also try going to the Mandrake Control Center and to the software section. You can install applications from there. All it does is ask you to insert the CD"s and it fulfills all the dependencies it needs.

I've been doing that, but for programs that don't come on the CD's I always seem to be missing something.

So when you insall your OS, initially, what packages do you generally choose?