For most things, the configure/make/install sequence has worked fine for 
me.  It's a pain, though, when there are a lot of small pieces.
I've used yum and apt-get but wasn't aware of urpmi.  Is it in any way 
related to rpmdrake?
Why do you have to "remove" the CD?
Thanks for the recommendation,
Vaughn

KevinO wrote:
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> Your main problem is not knowing/understanding package management for your
> distribution. Since I am well familiar with Mandrake, I'll present a few of the
> basics, in a (small) nutshell.
> 
> Urpmi is the tool to use to install and update software on a Mandrake/Mandriva
> system.
> 
> Codecs, decoders, and other proprietary programs, that cannot be distributed in
> the US are available on mirrors, non as plf-free and plf-nonfree sources.
> 
> When you sent up your Mdk system, you should have removed the CD as software
> sources by:
> 
>   # urpmi.removemedia -a
> 
> Then, use one of the EasyUrpmi websites, such as:
> 
> http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
> 
> to generate a series of urpmi.addmedia commands for each of the following
> categories: main, contrib, updates, plf-free, plf-nonfree. I won't explain how to
> use the web site here, the instructions on the page are self-explanatory.
> 
> Once you have installed these sources (and you need to do this, in order to get
> security updates, software that didn't come on the CD's, etc.), all it takes to
> install ffmpeg is:
> 
>   # urpmi ffmpeg
> 
> All dependencies are resolved and fetched auto-magically.
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> 
> By not using the built-in software management tools of Mandrake--which are pretty
> good by the way--you are making it much harder than it has to be, likely going to
> fail, and risk messing up your system.
> 
> Forget about 7z.
> - --
> KevinO
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