Mandrake Software Management is a collection of utilities for maintaining software on a Mandrake system. The Software Installer can retrieve software from the Internet or from local media. Four different Software Management utilities are provided:

1) Install Software -- used to install software packages on a system

2) Mandrake Update -- used to update packages that are already installed on a system

3) Remove Software -- used to remove packages from a system

4) Software Sources Manager -- used to configure and update the location(s) of software packages (such as CDs, Internet or other local sources).

All four software utilities can be easily launched from within the Mandrake Control Center (top figure), or from the 'Configuration > Packaging' section of the menu.