debian help

[E Frank Ball]

I just got debian up and running.  I seem to be using dselect ok with
the CD I made.  I have X running, but with some window manager problems.

I have a couple of .deb packages I got off some web pages.  When I do
"apt-get install package-name.deb" it says it can't find the file.  How
do I load a local package?  The man page isn't much help.

While I'm at it I need a good reference for how to use apt-get.
Equivalent commands to rpm -q, rpm -ql, rpm -qf, etc.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com