Yeah, so the nice thing about Debian, and hence Ubuntu, is its package manager: apt
To install a program, type "apt-get install programname". It will download and install the program for you, along with any dependencies. Of course, you have to run it as root. Not sure how much of a n00b you are, but you become root with the "su" command. For a "better" way of doing it, use "sudo", but this complication can be added later.
Sometimes apt can be a little tricky though...if you want a program but call it by the wrong name, apt won't offer any help. So you'll want to search for it using the "apt-cache" command.
You'll want to spend at least 15 or so minutes reading up on apt...use the man pages. "man apt", "man apt-get", "man apt-cache".
Are you a Unix noob, or just a Linux noob? I can offer some more pointers.
Also, this is very useful for working with the command line: a tutorial I wrote on using the "screen" command
One more thing...I haven't used this much myself, but I heard this is very nice: Ubuntu Wiki
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