That's what I did. Problem is that I run up against dependencies where it wants a later version than the one that's going to be installed. (It suggests what I want is impossible.) I don't know how to resolve this: I'm not even sure how (or if) I point apt-get at a later version: forgive me, but this isn't obvious (to me at any rate).

I wonder: would I be better removing all references to Kde (in, say, synaptic) and starting afresh? What would I point the tools to to get a really up to date version of Kde?

I'll struggle on with this tonight, but I'm begining to think I'm flogging a dead horse. I might just pop out and buy another hard drive and pop a later version of Knoppix on (I'm still using 3.1) and copy everything I need over: there's not enough space on my SuSE partition. (I'll make a seperate /home, too!)

What would be cute would be an upgrade option within the CD, but I'm not sure if this is possible.