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This must be noob question, but using the Software Management program to install new programs I can't seem to find where wine, dosbox, and a slew of other applications are at.

I have All and All selected and in the Find: picker I type in wine and the only package results I get is lib64kwineffects1. When I type in dosbox, I get nothing.

Media Manager is set at:

Enabled Updates Type Medium
X X HTTP Core Updates (distrib1)
X X HTTP Nonfree Updates (distrib2)
X X HTTP Core 32bit Updates (distrib4)
X X HTTP Nonfree 32bit Update (distrib5)

And also, why is it that I uninstall Kate or Kwrite and a ton of applications get uninstalled as well? applications like thunar, xfce4-xxxxxx, kwallet, etc..??? I had to manually re-add those back in, specifically, the xfce4 ones since that's the DE that I'm using.

I used to use Mandriva 2007-2009, but have used Slackware for the past 4 years. Now, I'm giving Mageia 3 a try since I've always liked Mandriva, but I'm not liking the dependency issues when uninstalling/installing software. Perhaps that is something I need to get re-used to again...

Thanks.

X X HTTP Core Updates (distrib1)
X X HTTP Nonfree Updates (distrib2)
X X HTTP Core 32bit Updates (distrib4)
X X HTTP Nonfree 32bit Update (distrib5)

having only update repos enabled,
you are searching only for updates of wine etc..

you should enable the reposirories which contains all the packages, named

X X HTTP Core
X X HTTP Nonfree
X X HTTP Core 32bit
X X HTTP Nonfree 32bit

Ok, that worked AFTER I had to Configure media sources for install and update as the only non-Update that I could select was the CD-ROM.

So, I removed Kate and Kwrite, and the system tells me that the following packages are orphaned:

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The following packages:
  dolphin-4.10.2-1.mga3.x86_64
  dolphin-handbook-4.10.2-1.mga3.noarch
  gwenview-4.10.2-1.mga3.x86_64
  gwenview-handbook-4.10.2-1.mga3.noarch
  kamera-4.10.2-1.mga3.x86_64
  kamera-handbook-4.10.2-1.mga3.noarch
  kdeartwork4-kscreensaver-4.10.2-1.mga3.x86_64
  kfind-4.10.2-1.mga3.x86_64
  kfind-handbook-4.10.2-1.mga3.noarch
  ktexteditor-4.10.2-3.mga3.x86_64
  kwallet-4.10.2-1.mga3.x86_64
  kwallet-handbook-4.10.2-1.mga3.noarch
  lcms2-2.4-3.mga3.x86_64
  lib64gle3-3.1.0-15.mga3.x86_64
  lib64gwenviewlib4-4.10.2-1.mga3.x86_64
  lib64keybinder0-0.3.0-2.mga3.x86_64
  lib64llvmradeon9.1.2-9.1.2-1.mga3.x86_64
  lib64unique1.0_0-1.1.6-7.mga3.x86_64
  lib64xfsm4.6_0-4.10.0-10.mga3.x86_64
  plasma-applet-battery-4.10.2-3.mga3.x86_64
  plasma-applet-folderview-4.10.2-1.mga3.x86_64
  plasma-applet-showdesktop-4.10.2-1.mga3.x86_64
  thunar-1.6.2-2.mga3.x86_64
  thunar-volman-0.8.0-2.mga3.x86_64
  xfce4-appfinder-4.10.0-2.mga3.x86_64
  xfce4-mixer-4.10.0-2.mga3.x86_64
  xfce4-screenshooter-1.8.1-4.mga3.x86_64
  xfce4-session-4.10.0-10.mga3.x86_64
  xfce4-settings-4.11.0-3.mga3.x86_64
  xfce4-taskmanager-1.0.0-5.mga3.x86_64
  xfdesktop-4.10.2-1.mga3.x86_64
  xscreensaver-extrusion-5.21-1.mga3.x86_64
  xscreensaver-gl-5.21-1.mga3.x86_64
are now orphaned.

You may wish to remove them.

I also got that message after I installed wine. I run xfce for my DE, shouldn't thunar and all the xfce4 packages remain? Or if I switch to KDE, shouldn't Dolphin, kwallet, kdeartwork, kamera remain?

Why did they get orphaned when they are surely needed?

For your question, see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Removing_packages

Thanks for the link... It's all coming back to me now. Same as it was with Mandriva.