"Are you removing KDE? The package knx-installer gets removed if you remove KDE because it depends on kdelibs4 which gets removed when you remove KDE by doing 'apt-get libarts1' to trash kde. I had this happen also."

Well, that WOULD explain it. My whole point in doing this is to put together an easy install for a server, and was hoping to get by without KDE--and use XFCE. I suppose I can live with KDE and just eliminate all the other desktops, or go to v. 3.3 and use knx-hdinstall instead of knoppix-installer. I suspect I'd have to leave enough of KDE in it to run the installer in XFCE that I may as well just keep KDE. Just getting rid of OpenOffice will give me more than enough room on the CD for all the server bits, and KDE will be more familiar to the other people who will admin the things.