2003-08-1 07:00:38: Begin unzip 2003-08-1 07:00:39: Begin unpack 2003-08-1 07:00:39: Begin cfg 2003-08-1 07:01:14: Begin fds 2003-08-1 07:01:15: Begin id_cc 2003-08-1 07:01:15: Begin id_tx 2003-08-1 07:01:15: Begin make 2003-08-1 07:03:14: Begin sigjmp ./create-response.sh: runtest: command not found ./create-response.sh: pdftex: command not found You don't have a working TeX binary installed, but the texi2dvi script can't proceed without it. If you want to use this script, you have to install some kind of TeX, for example teTeX Debian packages. You can do that with this command: apt-get install tetex-bin ./create-response.sh: tex: command not found 2003-08-1 07:03:26: Begin ckdoc 2003-08-1 07:03:41: Begin install 2003-08-1 07:03:43: Collecting results