Quote Originally Posted by god
by the way... I know that it is going to remove things.. but why?
Did you change your "default release" in /etc/apt/apt.conf to "stable" by chance?

It's probably trying to remove the packages that were in testing/unstable to bring you back to a default Debian Woody installation.

I know I had to go through all sorts of removal of newer programs to install older versions when I wanted to move to KDE3.1/Woody from Knoppix.

You'll probably end up breaking something doing this, though... it took about an hour of playing around to bring my system back. See: http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=804