Quoth Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp..... Thanks for that but..... <snip> I just tried your sources.list verbatim (yes I did do an apt-get update) and when I try installing the packages as suggested on the Trinity Debian Installation wiki page I get: #apt-get install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kde-trinity : Depends: kde-core-trinity (>= 5:47) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdeedu-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdegames-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdetoys-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdeaccessibility-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdeaddons-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdeadmin-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdeartwork-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdegraphics-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdemultimedia-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdenetwork-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdepim-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. If I try installing kde-core-trinity I get: #apt-get install kde-core-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kde-core-trinity : Depends: kdebase-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdelibs-trinity (>= 4:3.5.5) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Extending the list to include kdebase-trinity and kdelibs-trinity I get: # apt-get install kde-core-trinity kdebase-trinity kdelibs-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kdebase-trinity : Depends: kdebase-trinity-bin (>= 4:3.5.13-1debian0+ax3~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdebase-data-trinity (>= 4:3.5.13-1debian0+ax3~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdebase-kio-plugins-trinity (>= 4:3.5.13-1debian0+ax3~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdeprint-trinity (>= 4:3.5.13-1debian0+ax3~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed Depends: ksmserver-trinity (>= 4:3.5.13-1debian0+ax3~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kwin-trinity (>= 4:3.5.13-1debian0+ax3~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: kdm-trinity (>= 4:3.5.13-1debian0+ax3~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed Recommends: kdebase-runtime-data-common-trinity but it is not going to be installed kdelibs-trinity : Depends: kdelibs4c2a-trinity (>= 4:3.5.13-1debian0+ax5~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdelibs-data-trinity (>= 4:3.5.13-1debian0+ax5~squeeze) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Hmmmm.... this seems to be a downward spiral :-( Just for clarification, I'm trying to install Trinity 3.5.13.1 on a plain Debian Wheezy system without any pre-installed grahical environment (no Gnome or KDE) so I end up with a 'pure' trinity based system. -- Regards, Russell -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Russell Brown | MAIL: russell(a)lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com | | Peterborough, England | WWW Play: http://www.ruffle.me.uk | --------------------------------------------------------------------

Sid sources are in your list! Unless you did some manual apt-preferences or apt-pinning configs, you get sid, not wheezy! if you already had some wheezy you get a mix, harder to maintain than straight sid. @ Russell, apt-get -f install might help, try that first. Now you are probably running amixed testing/unstable system, you will learn much more about fixing apt conflicts! And watch out with deb-multimedia, there has always been stuff (e.g. ffmpeg) in there that can cause dependency conflicts with official Debian packages. It's better to install only needed selected packages then disable it. Dist-upgrading on testing/sid with that repo enabled is asking for trouble. Do you know exactly what has changed in TDE 3.5.13 that no longer requires some squeeze packages? Last time I installed wheezy+ 3.5.13 they definitely were needed (I don't have the list to hand right now of exactly what packages) David

OK.... I tried this from a different angle. I installed Squeeze (Network Install ISO) selecting only Print Server, SSH Server, Laptop and Standard System Utilities from the software selection menu. Then I added the Squeeze repositories as documented on the Trinity WIKI. # apt-get install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity Worked fine so I had Trinity 3.5.13.1 on Squeeze. Then I changed the debian repositories in sources.list to be wheezy but left the Trinity ones at squeeze. # apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade Did the job and I'm now running 3.5.13.1 on Wheezy. There are some 'curiosities' (like the tdm being called kdm-trinity and the config stuff lurking in /etc/trinity/kdm where I'm sure when I tried the nightly builds it was /etc/trinity/tdm) but it is working. Might be useful info for someone else. -- Regards, Russell -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Russell Brown | MAIL: russell(a)lls.com PHONE: 01780 471800 | | Lady Lodge Systems | WWW Work: http://www.lls.com | | Peterborough, England | WWW Play: http://www.ruffle.me.uk | --------------------------------------------------------------------