Bakuian - Yes this is very helpful! I've 3 Debian--wheezy-based Linux machines, would something like this work?
Debian Synaptic
Thanks for your help
I'm a BigData guy not really a OS Admin, and really-really appreciate your aid
Just swung by the library too but they didn't have any Debian books, just a generic Linux+ cert book, will start reading up, though the index says nothing about Pkg Mgmt