I'm not a newie but I'm always learning. Might be nothing new to you but its an eye opener to me. I found that to install a .deb package all I need to do is download it and the run apt install command, Bing, bang simple. So I guess all that the package installer does is to run the same command, right? Now if I could find a similar magic bullet for installing rpms I would be one of those rocket scientists.