Hi there.
I'm new to KNOPPIX having tried Ubuntu. KNOPPIX appears much better for my needs, and so far its been great but I have a few small problems that are killing the experience for me.

I wanted a portable, encrypted USB stick LIVE version to carry around with me. In use, this has caused me the following issues:

1) despite having persitance, my keyboard is set to Euro, not UK. When I use the cheatcode, everything is (almost) OK, but it doesn't persist after reboot. I have used search and the forum directs me to change settings in the "control centre" in the K menu. This doesn't exist. Any other ideas would be welcome.

2) When I try to load apps on from Synaptic, a lot of them won't load. For example, VLC and my Radeon HD drivers for Compiz. When I try to install them, synaptic says that they have dependencies that aren't loaded. When I try to load them, they fail because of versioning issues or because they aren't found. I've loaded a massive list of repositories, but this didn't help. What's going on here? In ubuntu, synaptic resolves all the dependencies, loads what you need and never complains! How can I get knoppix to co-operate here?

I'm sure these are common issues but I just haven't been able to find any answers via search.

Thanks for your suggestions.