Hello again. I managed to get Mandrake 8.1 up and running again, and I even upgraded to KDE 3 without much hassle. Today I tried to update gnumeric and got into such a nest of dependencies that I had to give it up! The "Software Installer" (variously called rpminst and rpmdrake) in Mandrake 8.1 seems to do nothing about resolving dependencies. I've heard that there's a better utility for updating RPMs under Red Hat, that automatically downloads all necessary files... is something like that available for Mandrake as well? Thanks in advance. --Ben