gowator, I did, indeed, go to easy urpmi and went through the whole shebang there. urpmi still looked for CDs. Finally had it that it would look on the net for a lousey package and then it griped about dependencies. Oh well.

To be fair, debian makes you jump through hoops to install pkgs from CD. When I was still on dialup I would try to download at work on broadband and bring home on CD (with dependencies) and though apt would get the primary pkg from the CD it didn't want to look there for dependencies... it was added in sources and I tried a tool as well Other than that, for me, debian and apt is best.

I still have mandrake on here and haven't given up on it. But it just pales in comparison to debian and I hope the devotees to this distro and its derivatives grow. It is great really is. Look at lindows/linspire. They have former windows-only people that can only handle windows merrily CNR-ing. Yes, it is costing them and plain old apt may be somewhat crippled but it is still the apt system that is running CNR for them. Not bad.