sorry but i am hurting here
Please forward more details. How are you installing?
a package manager. Sorry noob
Are you installing LMCE or something else? The instructions for LMCE are very specific but I suggestt he DVD install since its very troublefree.
For other packages you can open a terminal window and use sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install "package-name". Or you can install the adept package manager sudo apt-get install adept. Warning: installing some packages will break a lot of stuff.
actually lmce i already got installed ..... i was looking for how to install other things ... primarily at the moment trying to get my nvidia driver installed.
Normally LMCE will do that for you. If it doesn't or the driver is wrong for your card you can do it from a command line or install Adept (see above) and type in nvidia to the search term. I will list all the available Ubuntu packages. Check them for the one correct for your card and install just that. It will automatically install any dependencies. I think the preferred one, nvidia-glx is automaticaly configured when you start LMCE but I have not tried it on the most recent versions.
Maybe this will help a bit: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Display_Drivers