Today, none of the (x)emacs packages in Debian know about the CSSC directory. Hopefully this will change. For now, to have (x)emacs' vc mode find the commands, you should add the /usr/lib/cssc directory into your vc-path variable. One easy way to do that is with: M-x customize-variable RET vc-path RET -- Yann Dirson , Tue, 3 Sep 2013 23:08:06 +0200