re: if I were a newby how would I get sound?
Try apt-cache search jack if memory serves that's a package that can get
cdrom's playing out of the cdrom jack. Even if you don't have speakers
you may still have a sound card and if that's the case try plugging those
earphones into the sound card to listen. Doing apt-cache search "search
string" | more can be a very helpful command after apt-get update has
completed successfully since it searches package names and package
descriptions for what interests you. You probably want to run the
updatedb command as root when you're disconnected from the internet and
then try locate "search string" too. That command does much the same as
apt-cache search does except it limits the search to what's on your
system. Then there's the grep command man grep to do even a finer search
inside files on your local system. A few useful files to download would
be apt-get install less -r and apt-get install lg-all and apt-get install
doc-linux-text and apt-get install debian-reference. Your main
documentation location is in /usr/share/doc and directories inside that
directory; for instance doc-linux-text places its own directory in
/usr/share/doc and all documentation you'll find has a .z extension on it
inside doc-linux-text/en/ directory using zless can open those files up
for you and let you read them. It's not the only way that can be done but
is one that's a possibility.
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