[texhax] easy update of teTeX on Linux?

[Christopher W. Ryan]

I have used MikTeX on Win98 a bit, although I am still a novice.  I like the 
MikTeX package manager utility:  it makes it very easy for me to see, in a GUI 
sort of way, what packages are installed and not installed, and it makes it 
easy to install new ones.

I now have moved to a dual boot Win 98--Linux RH9 system, mainly to get my feet 
wet with LInux and see if I can learn it, and if I like it.  

Does teTeX have a similarly easy way to install new packages?  Doesn't have to 
be GUI for my tastes, but something that puts all the new little files into all 
the right places automatically would be nice.

Thanks.

--Chris Ryan