Sorry for not being clear. Keep in mind that I'm no guru, and what I'm about to say is certainly up for debate/correction.

First, your installation of Knoppix and my installation of Knoppix (OK, Kanotix for me now, but close enough) should be just about the same. I'm not getting all those errors from "make" about missing stuff -- which means, I think, that something else is going on -- the issue is not that you're missing stuff.

Second, your system is doing what I did when I tried to use "apt-get" to install the KDE games -- it's not installing a version of xlibs-static-pic that matches your current system; it's going out, grabbing the very latest version, and then going about upgrading the rest of your system to match. If the issue truly is that you're missing stuff, then you might consider going to Debian's package site and downloading packages that match your existing system.

So what I'm saying is, don't do that apt-get command. Instead, try running (as root) the command "/sbin/ldconfig" (which is supposed to tell the linker where the shared libraries already on your system live). Then run your "make" command again.

And if that doesn't work, start from scratch.