I did this afternoon a chroot base (debootstrap) "install" of wheezy and proceeded to install Trinity to it. Rather than the "official" method (which uses metapackages, e.g. kde-trinity) I used a custom list of TDE applications for a "light" TDE. My list is posted here: http://paste.debian.net/131358/ I could convert this to a "real" install later, but for now I want to see what dependency issues there might be. I identified the following, all of which are deprecated in Wheezy but available (and installable) from Squeeze : libavahi-qt3-1 libsensors3 libmtp8 libpoppler-qt2 libpoppler5 There may be others in a more full TDE setup. So far it seems that enabling Squeeze repos in Wheezy still allows TDE to install without errors. Hope this helps anyone wanting to try Testing, maybe even LMDE or Sid