Quote Originally Posted by kovk

Do NOT add any extra lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file
Correct KDE 3.2.1 is mostly in unstable now.


4. apt-get -u -t people.debian.org dist-upgrade
Should be -t unstable you do not need the people packages and some people may want to use apt-get install -t unstable kdebase kdebase-bin ..... until you have all the KDE packages installed if they do not want to upgrade their whole install to unstable.

it downloads the packages and on mine(and likely anyone else using this version of knoppix. it failed after doing trying to install kdebase)

5. dpkg --force--overwrite --install xxx.deb for each package that has this problem. (should just be one, kdebase)
Good thing it was a fresh install and not the CVS packages I had to do all kinds of overwrites.

6. apt-get -u -t people.debian.org dist-upgrade (it picks up where it left off)
You should always use dpkg --configure -a before picking back up to configure any packages that may have been missed when you had the errors and had to force overwrite.


Anyway, it works. mostly, I don't seem to have the new taskbar applets or the plastik theme, but I think thats just because they havn't been added to the repository yet. I assume they will appear and I will be able to get them later with an additional 'apt-get -u -t people.debian.org dist-upgrade'
You missed some of the artwork packages it was either the -style or the -theme-window that did not get installed on mine.

Code:
[10:21 PM Sun Mar 07: stephen @ ~]
>$ COLUMNS=125 dpkg -l | grep 3.2.1
[snip...]
ii  kdeartwork                3.2.1-1                   themes, styles and more from the official KDE release
ii  kdeartwork-misc           3.2.1-1                   various multimedia goodies released with KDE
ii  kdeartwork-style          3.2.1-1                   widget styles released with KDE
ii  kdeartwork-theme-desktop  3.2.1-1                   Dummy upgrade package for official KDE desktop themes
ii  kdeartwork-theme-icon     3.2.1-1                   icon themes released with KDE
ii  kdeartwork-theme-window   3.2.1-1                   window decoration themes released with KDE
[snip...]