I found this: http://live.debian.net/manual/ which brings to: http://live.debian.net/manual/4.x/html/live-manual.en.htmlThose are out of date... In order to build jessie successfully you need live-build 4.0.5-1 (which you are already using, so far so good). http://live-systems.org/gitweb/?p=live-build.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/debian-old-4.0 The live-manual version which matches that live-build version is 4.0.3-1 http://live-systems.org/gitweb/?p=live-manual.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/debian-old-4.0