The Software Manager can also be used to easily add & remove software on a Mandrake system.

If you've spent any amount of time installing Linux software, you've no doubt come across a situation such as this.

Dependencies are additional files that are required by an application to install, or to perform properly.

When trying to install the Gimp, an error message says that several additional files are required -- and some of them have very cryptic names.

Trying to solve dependency issues is often very frustrating and time consuming. The Software Manager can help with this problem.