Prerequisites

What you need:

• a Linux (or similar UNIX-y OS) computer
• a text editor (vim, from vim-enhanced)
• tetex-latex (latex2html)
• texinfo (texi2dvi)
• ghostscript (dvipdf)
• tetex-dvips (dvips)
• tar
• rcs (ci)
• openssh (scp)

Some optional items to have handy are:

• rsync