Newbie question

Hi: I am a newbie to debian, and not familiar with dselect, dpkg and apt. Is there any available document or URL that compares rpm with the above tools (like the equivalent commands etc.)? Any help is much appreciated.

Re: new to Debian....

Yes, I think curses.h is in dev. kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Is dev required just to run 'make menuconfig'? >