I got crazy and installed the kde3alpha packages. Of course, I had to hack around the /etc/apt/apt.conf to support http proxy, but finally got things downloaded and installed. Two big problems so far: no window manager loads along with KDE, and almost none of the configuration modules load (konqueror control panel, for example).
Anyway, just thought I'd let you all know how it's going! - Josh ----------------------- ok folks... deb http://people.debian.org/~rkrusty kde3.0/i386/ that'll get you access to kdelibs and kdebase. and most likely you won't be able to any of the kde2 stuff installed at this time but..hey, it's the first draft. Ivan

