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COMPLETELY new to UNIX

So I am ridiculously new to UNIX. The closest thing to it I use is Mac OS X. Recently I downloaded OpenDarwin 7.2.1 just to see what it was like. I popped it into Vmware, installation and boot work well, and I login.
Now I am presented with a console. I'm generally okay with command line stuff, but I'd like a GUI and have no idea how to go about getting one, and after googling all I gather is that I need to download MacPorts and then whatever WM I like (GNOME or KDE, maybe?). The problem is that I don't know how to download these files with only a terminal. From what I've been reading, it looks similar to the Linux method but every time I follow the instructions on the websites I have visited, I get either a "step 1: install macports" or a get command for a file that no longer exists or something that I don't understand. Any help?

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get-branches(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   get-branches(1)

NAME

       get-branches - downloads all branches related to a Launchpad team or person

SYNOPSIS

       get-branches [-d directory] [-o branch|checkout] -t team
       get-branches team
       get-branches --help

DESCRIPTION

       get-branches uses the LP API to get a list of branches for a person or team and calls Bazaar to download all branches.

OPTIONS

       Listed below are the command line options for get-branches:

       -h, --help
	      Display a help message and exit.

       -d, --directory
	      Download branches to a directory other than the current directory.

       -o, --operation
	      Specifies which Bazaar operation to use when downloading the branches; may be either branch or checkout.

       -t, --team
	      Specifies which Launchpad team/person to download branches from.	This option is required.

AUTHORS

       get-branches  was  written  by  Daniel  Holbach	<daniel.holbach@ubuntu.com>,  and  this manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies
       <jpds@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3.

SEE ALSO

       bzr(1)

ubuntu-dev-tools						  11 August 2008						   get-branches(1)