Newbie Questions

[Brian Neal <bneal@ia.net>]

Hi all,

I am new to Debian and Linux in general. I managed to get an install
working, then got X going. I am currently using the slink versions
of gnome and enlightenment. Last night I got brave and figured out
apt-get and ran out and downloaded the latest gnome. 

Question 1) The new gnome looks good but the help icon doesn't
work. When I look at it's properties I see "gnome-help-browser"
however this doesn't seem to be installed anywhere on my machine.
Where do I get this?

Question 2) I decided to try and apt-get the latest enlightenment.
I added unstable to my sources.list file and did

apt-get update
apt-get install enlightenment

It went out and downloaded a ton of stuff, some of it looks
suspiciously unnecessary (like g++, gcc, gnat) as well as
an enlightenment *.deb file. But several errors occurred during
the install and it suggested I do a apt-get update to fix. This
didn't seem to work either. Any tips for getting the latest
enlightenment?

Question 3) How do I get sound working? I found a generic Linux
FAQ in /usr/doc that talked about recompiling the kernel. This
sounds scary but I could try it. But first, is there a specific
Debian method that I don't know about that I could try first?

Thanks very much!!!

Brian