urpmi is Mandriva's PackageManagementTool. It's a dependency-resolving front-end to RPM.

You need to configure urpmi on your machine to point to the package repositories you want to use. An easy way to do this is with easyurpmi. Make sure when configuring sources, you match the exact version of Mandriva that you are using.

There are different types of sources.

main

The main distribution's packages

updates

Updates to packages in main

contrib

Other packages contributed to this version

plf-free

Packages from the Penguin Liberation Front, which are generally absent from main for legal reasons

plf-nonfree

Non-Free packages from PLF

jpackage

Java packages for Linux

See also:

• URPMI tutorial
• URPMI resources