Red Hat control-panel and sndconfig

[Barry Kauler <bkauler@cowan.edu.au>]

Another newbie question.
Those of us with a Red Hat background use control-panel
to configure the printer and sndconfig to configure sound.
When in Debian as a newbie, it is not at all obvious how
to do these things.

Is it legal and will it work, to install
control-panel and sndconfig in a Debian system?

sndconfig for example does some autodetection of the
sound device, and writes to /etc/isapnp.conf, /etc/conf.modules,
and /etc/sysconfig/soundcard.

Does anyone know if this is possible/allowable?
Is there a deb package for it?

Regards,
Barry Kauler