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... I can purge Iceweasel without any problems. But if I try to reinstall Chromium, I get a large list of version conflicts an violated dependencies.

Yep. If you try:

sudo apt-get --dry-run upgrade

That will tell you which packages are out of date and which would be 'held back' if you try to upgrade. If you delete, directly or indirectly, any package listed as 'held back', it won't reinstall.

Chromium is 'held back'. So are parts of LibreOffice.

This will get worse over time until Knoppix catches up with a new release.

Some might argue this is a reason for preferring packages from back port repositories over packages from unstable or experimental repositories.