I decided to try LXDE in my VM of Debian/Testing and all went well till the very end, when it fails to find
[snip] E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.5.6~dfsg-5_amd64.deb : 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] root@debian:~# aptitude install lxde The following NEW packages will be installed: gvfs-backends{a} libsmbclient{a} libwbclient0{a} lxde lxde-core{a} pcmanfm{a} The following packages will be REMOVED: arj{u} libgphoto2-l10n{u} manpages-dev{u} 0 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 3 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 2,288 kB/2,851 kB of archives. After unpacking 2,753 kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Err http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libwbclient0 amd64 2:3.5.6~dfsg-5 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] Err http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main libsmbclient amd64 2:3.5.6~dfsg-5 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] (Reading database ... 48900 files and directories currently installed.) Removing arj ... Removing libgphoto2-l10n ... Removing manpages-dev ... Processing triggers for man-db ... E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/samba/libwbclient0_3.5.6~dfsg-5_amd64.deb : 404 Not Found [IP: 130.89.149.226 80] root@debian:~# [/snip] -- Did you know... If you play a Windows 2000 CD backwards, you hear satanic messages, but what's worse is when you play it forward.... ...it installs Windows 2000 -- Alfred Perlstein on chat at freebsd.org