[debian-knoppix] hd-install: problems with new packages

[Mark Furner <Mark.Furner@bigfoot.com>]

hi there

I'm having problems installing new packages with knoppix, just don't seem to 
be able to get the dependencies right. one solution is to change it to 
debian/testing or debian/unstable by altering the apt/sources.list as 
suggested in this forum advisory, but an apt-get upgrade scares me when it 
suggests removing the entire kde packages:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2251

my questions are: 

1) how much of my user data will be deleted by this? If I need to reinstall 
KDE then most of my desktop settings will be gone. Will this include 
user-files stored on the desktop?

2) will it interfere with login / user identities set up since installing 
knoppix?

3) I once wasted about half a week with sid/unstable because of an update and 
minor system misconfiguration in one of the packages. Is testing a bit more 
secure?

Thanks for your help!
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