New to Linux : Few Questions

I just downloaded Knoppix and burned as ISO and ran it, it worked smooth and i didnt have any problems except that i have no idea what to do with it.
Anyone know where to get good help? a website or something
what is aterm and how do i use it to do stuff?
How do you use the directory (save, open, explore)?
how do i use the tools, like airsnort SHELL?

im so confused, thanks

I think there's a site called linuxquestions.org that's supposed to be useful...

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after playin around for about 4 hours, i figured most of the basics out, except i still cant launch any programs i download. i know how to but when i do it says that i need some "libcstd..." so then i went and downloaded that, but when i went to run that it said
error: cannot open lock file ///var/lib/rpm/RPMLOCK in exclusive mode
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

help plz

a lot of help these forums are.. if anyone does decide to respond, im also having problems installed dependencies (im installing XMMS) but gtk+ keep conflicting with libglib >

[root@oh-northolmstead1-13b-98 adam]# rpm -i /home/adam/apps/glib-1.2.3-2.i386.rpm
warning: /home/adam/apps/glib-1.2.3-2.i386.rpm: V3 RSA/MD5 signature: NOKEY, key ID 67ad71d5
file /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 from install of glib-1.2.3-2 conflicts with file from package libglib1.2-1.2.10-11mdk
file /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 from install of glib-1.2.3-2 conflicts with file from package libglib1.2-1.2.10-11mdk
file /usr/lib/libgthread-1.2.so.0 from install of glib-1.2.3-2 conflicts with file from package libglib1.2-1.2.10-11mdk
[root@oh-northolmstead1-13b-98 adam]#

A) Don't use RPM's
B) If you insist upon using RPM's, use a dependency handler/automagic widgemacallit like urpmi or apt for rpm

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Why not use RPM's? I have always used them..? What's the downside to them?

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Well... it's not really the RPM's fault, but how they're implemented. They're almost never optimized for anything above an i386, they almost always require exact versions of other packages, making it very hard to have it not conflict with stuff on your system. And anywho, compiling is better for your computer, anyway.

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Right, RPMS are very nice. But remember waaaayyyyy back in windows history when you would run into dependency ****? Like way back in the days of widespread DOS use. Everytime you installed something it would make annoying changes to dll's and stick crap everywhere. RPM's and to DEB's are similiar. Even compiling from source will often result in loads of dependency issues. The joy of the newest RPM and DEB package handlers is that it will download these depencies for you in the background when you download a package from their list. IE if you select Firefox it will 'know' that you don't have java and will download it as well as Firefox. I know Java isn't a real requirment for Firefox but i was giving that as an example.
I suggest getting the red hat port of apt which has been redone so it supports RPM's instead of DEB's and tar's

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Bah, pacman beats the **** out of every piece of program/package (whatever you want to call it) installation on earth.

pacman -S $package
pacman -Syu #updates EVERYTHING on your system

And it's all i686 optimized

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I wouldn't know, i don't use linux all that often. I install it once a year to see how it has progresses, play with it for a few days get frustrated with the video/networking/sound drivers and go back to windows. Although i had debian installed on an old 233 i had laying around. I had it running apache and a light weight mail server. But i got tired of the problems I was having with it and uninstalled it.

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