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ahh. this is the slackware forum, so the advice is mostly relevant to the slackware distribution. checkinstall is not installed on mandrake, neither are a lot of everyday slack commands. personally, i'd recommend changing to slackware and continuing in this forum. but if you want to keep your mandrake system, then you should post in the mandrake forum.
also, anything that ends in .rpm is what's called a binary executable. it's sort of equivalent to a windows .exe, in that you just execute the file, and it installs a precompiled program.
installing from source means downloading only the original source code (usually in written in c), then compiling it and running it. other people could tell you far more about this than i can. anyway, source packages are archives, and end in either .tar.gz, .tgz, or sometimes .tar.bz2.
mandrake is a binary distribution, which means it's mostly set up for installing binaries, you can also install from source, but in general it will be more difficult. slackware is really geared toward installing from source, although you can use binaries if you prefer.
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