[newbies] apt troubles

[Scott K]

So Apt -get is supposed to be amazing and solve dependencis so ignorant 
newbs like me can play with programs rather than get frustrated.  But 
mine has issues.  Whenever I try to use it, I get the following error 
and don't get my desired program:

Building Dependency Tree... Done
W: There are multiple versions of "strace" in your system.
This package won't be cleanly updated, unless you leave
only one version. To leave multiple versions installed,
you may remove that warning by setting the following
option in your configuration file:
RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^strace$"; };
To disable these warnings completely set:
RPM::Allow-Duplicated-Warning "false";
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
I especially like the last warning because I ran apt-get update and it 
produced these errors, rather than fixing the problem.
I'd like to remove the undesirable strace, but I don't know where to 
find it.

Also if anybody has a good reference on generic file structure for 
linux,  such as where do I find this program, or where should I install 
that one, I'd be interested in reading it over.

Scott K.
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