i recently downloaded icewm (ice windowmanager) but its on a deb file. being a newbie, ive become accustomed to using rpms. what do i do to install the icewm. i know that deb stands for debian while ...
No, those packages are just used to save download times with apt-get. It's completely harmless to remove them. If you do, it'll just be downloaded again the next time it's needed.