Thanks. This pretty much gets rid of everything. But why don't the directory and config files all get removed.

ap-get --purge remove openoffice-de-en got rid of most of the openoffice stuff, though I also found ttf-openoffce lurking around. I still have an openoffice directory in my home directory...

apt-get --purge remove kdelibs4 also does a reasonable, but incomplete job. Testing apt-get -s --purge remove kde* still lists a number of kde programs that I had to remove by hand I still can'T remove hotplug-knoppix and mkdesktophdicons-knoppix

dpkg -l | grep knoppix* was pretty helpful but also lists usleep-knoppix, which I can't remove. All three of these flag sysvinit as an additional package to be removed that shouldn't be....

So, how do I deal with this dependency and getting rid of final config files and the like.

Thanks...