Apt-get: Too Many Problems. Should I Go Sid or Slack?

[mzilikazi]

Since my HDD install of Knoppix 3.3, I've had too many problems with apt-get upgrade. After upgrades I've had to solve problems with Locales, Openoffice and KDE. Now after the last upgrade Gimp is busted. Apt (synaptic, actually) is telling me that Gimp isn't even installed anymore and when I try to reinstall it I get:

Some packages could not be installed.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gimp:
Depends: libgimp2.0 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgtk2.0-0 but 2.4.2-1 is to be installed

apt-get install libgimp2.0 libgtk2.0-0 gimp

You had locale problems because Knopppix has them all more or less. Solution:

apt-get install localepurge

KDE I dunno- it's a PITA always wanting to remove itself. IIRC you can just let it do it then reinstall it. Of course if you're on dialup that isn't much help. A better answer is to use XFCE4

What's wrong w/ OO? I have just done an upgrade to SID and had no problems so it all works.