I'm trying to upgrade KDE but am having problems. I am logged in as root in a shell in IceWM.
Code:
 root@Knoppix:/home/christopher# dpkg --force --overwrite --install libice6_4.3.0-5_i386.deb
dpkg: unknown force/refuse option `--overwrite'
...
root@Knoppix:/home/christopher# dpkg --force--overwrite --install libice6_4.3.0-5_i386.deb
dpkg: unknown force/refuse option `-overwrite'
I tried `apt-get -f install' but that just gave me a lot of 'error processing' and 'dependency problems'
Code:
  
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdelibs4-dev:
 kdelibs4-dev depends on libarts1-dev; however:
  Package libarts1-dev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kdelibs4-dev (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libxpm-dev
 libxp-dev
 libxext-dev
 libxrandr-dev
 libxv-dev
 j2re1.4
 libxtst-dev
 libxi-dev
 libsm-dev
 libice-dev
 libxt-dev
 xlibs-static-dev
 libxmuu-dev
 libx11-dev
 libxtrap-dev
 xlibs-dev
 libxmu-dev
 libqt3-mt-dev
 libarts1-dev
 kdelibs4-dev
With all these errors I have not tried step 8. 'apt-get -u -t unstable install kdeartwork'.

Any ideas as to what to try next?

[[This is an install of Knoppix 3.3 (2003-11-19 I think) installed to a firewire HDD; I am using the CD to boot to run level 2 then doing a pivot_root to switch the root to the firewire HDD and then going to run level 5.]]