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I hope this has not been beaten into the ether, but wanted to share.

I updated, with much help from a friend, from KDE 3.0.4 to 3.1 on a Debian testing/unstable box with ease. The how-to follows and is for Debian only, though I am sure the grep commands will work on what ever distro.

1. Comment out all BUT the unstable apt sources in the /etc/apt/sources.list .
2. apt-get update
3. Purged these listed items , this purge list is from http://devel-home.kde.org/~nolden/kde/README

You need to purge with --force-all the following packages which are
known to cause conflicts:

Qt: The current Qt packages in unstable don't have their conflicts
resolved to the comparing woody packages, so libqt3-helper can't be
installed due to libqt3-dev (from 3.0.x):

dpkg --purge --force-all libqt3-dev

a) arts packages:

dpkg --purge --force-all libarts1 libarts1-bin libarts1-glib libarts1-qt

b) kdebase packages:

dpkg --purge --force-all kcontrol kscreensaver kdebugdialog khotkeys kxkb kdcop kioslave

c) kdenetwork packages:

dpkg --purge --force-all lisa

d) kdemultimedia packages:

dpkg --purge --force-all kfile-audio-plugins

e) kdegraphics packages:

dpkg --purge --force-all kfile-graphics-plugins

f) kdeaddons packages:

dpkg --purge --force-all kdeaddons konq-plugins noatun-plugins kicker-applets knewsticker-scripts kate-plugins

g) kdeartwork packages:

dpkg --purge --force-all kdeartwork-screensaver

h) If you have libwine-arts installed for using sound with WINE, you need
to uninstall that, too because it depends on arts packages from KDE 2.x

4. dpkg -l | grep 3.0.4 | apt-get -s --purge remove (Dry Run)
5. Same as above with "-s" removed
6. apt-get -f remove (Seems to be needed because of pipes)
7. apt-get install kdebase kdm
(and any or all of these, at this posting kdenetwork had not made to unstable)

kdenetwork
kdepim
kdegraphics
kdemultimedia
kdeaddons
kdeadmin
kdeutils
kdeedu
kdeartwork
kdegames
kdetoys
kdebindings
kdesdk

8. apt-get install koffice - if you want this

Have fun!! Of course this is all without any guarantee. This worked for me, should work for you too.