how to use dpkg/dselect/apt-get ???

I'm tearing my hair out, and glad I've never tried debian before...

I got 0.92 installed and running on my B132L, but for the life of me can't figure out how in the !@#$ to use the package tools to do anything useful (like install X or see what packages are in ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-hppa/

I have also failed to find any useful docs/tutorials on the matter.

Could someone please post a link to a useful howto or write a mini-howto up? So far, these package tools have seemed rather daunting...

Nick

Here's the basic one I found. It's for i386, but I don't think I've found much different...

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/dselect-beginner

Hope that helps!