On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 1:19 AM,
I have installed the standalone and it works well on my Xubuntu system.
I tried to run texi2pdf, which not a part of the standalone system, but fails due to: "...don't have any working TeX binary installed.."
If the standalone has one I will add its path to my PATH and the texi2pdf should work.
No, it probably won't work. You really need LaTeX to run texinfo.
I'm trying to avoid installing a full TeXLive distribution on this old limited memory machine.
You don't have to install full TeX Live. Just install the basic scheme (plain TeX) + "latexrecommended" collection. On one of my machines that fits into 110 MB, but you could probably be even more picky and install even less packages (or remove them later after installation). Just start with tlpretest 2014, else your installation will become obsolete before you know. Mojca