Quote Originally Posted by Alterscape
I just performed a Knoppix 3.7 Hard-Disk install. I'd like to start apt-getting new packages, but I remember reading somewhere that the standard Knoppix distro is different enough from vanilla Knoppix that running "apt-get dist-upgrade" will create some troubles. What do I need to check on and be careful of when apt-get upgrading this install..?
I did a Knoppix 3.7 install this last weekend.
When I ran knoppix-installer as root I selected install option 3, the 'debian' installer, so that I could select ReiserFS.
After the install was complete I entered the following commands as root
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get autoclean
auto-apt updatedb

The next day I realized that KPackage in Debian works differently than the package of the same name in SUSE or Mandrake. Sunday after noon I used KPackage to install dozens of apps. Amazing tool!. Installing PostgreSQL was always a manual pain, as was Bibletime. Not wth Debian.