Fore redhat I install both yum and apt to get out of dependency 
nightmares pretty painlessly.
I'm not sure of the mandrake repositories out there.
The dag repository for redhat stays pretty up to date 
:http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/
Here's one set of yum repositories I found for mandrake: 
http://speculation.org/garrick/yum.conf

JD

Vaughn Treude wrote:
> Hello everyone:
>
> I've got a Mandrake system I use for my day-to-day business.  I do not
> want to upgrade it, as it generally works fine and I've _never_ had an
> upgrade-type install succeed on Linux, ever (it has always hung the
> system - and I've tried it on several machines at several times.)  My
> Mandrake system's most annoying feature is that its email client
> (Evolution 1.4.6) is buggy and has somehow gotten worse; I've let my
> mail file get large and now it no longer allows me to empty the trash
> folder. I wanted to try a newer version of Evolution, but they all have
> too many dependencies; I can't even get the configure script to finish. 
> Then I remembered someone mentioning Balsa, whose name implies "light
> weight", so I thought, this should be easier.  I didn't have to add a
> lot of libraries to get the configure script to run, but the stupid
> thing won't compile, due to missing header files.  It started out with a
> file that I found in one of the Debian *-dev source packages, which then
> required another, and then another.  After downloading and installing at
> least 20 of these packages, I finally come to a dead end: gtkhtml-dev. 
> It has versions only for fink, maemo, and freebsd.  There's supposedly a
> gtkhtml-devel package in the SuSE hierarchy but those links to that are
> broken.  Does anybody know why a package like this would be impossible
> to find with Google?   Or can anybody suggest a less painful alternative
> email client?
>
> Thanks,
> Vaughn
>
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