Pidgin-Latex has an "Error while reading the generated image!"

I had no errors installing pidgin-latex via apt-get and pidgin runs fine before and after. The plugin is activated. The only problem I have is that (almost) every time a Latex message should be shown, instead the following message pops up and the text is not converted. For example, after sending the message *$$test$$* this error message popped up: > Error while reading the generated image! > > Datei »/tmp/purpleA0SRPY.png« konnte nicht geöffnet werden: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden The second paragraph is German and means something like > File /tmp/purpleA0SRPY.png could not be opened: File or directory not found This is what my command line I started pidgin with said about it: This is dvipng 1.15 Copyright 2002-2015 Jan-Ake Larsson This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=latex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (/tmp/purpleOZIFPY.tex LaTeX2e Babel and hyphenation patterns for 3 language(s) loaded. (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/color.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/color.cfg) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/dvips.def) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/dvipsnam.def)) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphicx.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/trig.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latexconfig/graphics.cfg))) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option. (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty)) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty)) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/amsfonts.sty)) No file purpleOZIFPY.aux. (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd) (./purpleOZIFPY.aux) ) Output written on purpleOZIFPY.dvi (1 page, 376 bytes). Transcript written on purpleOZIFPY.log. And this is what pidgins log said: (14:44:30) LaTeX: Writing Message: $$test$$ (14:44:30) LaTeX: starting to analyse the message: $$test$$ (14:44:30) LaTeX: Found LaTeX-Code: test (14:44:30) LaTeX: using '0,0,0' for foreground (14:44:30) LaTeX: using '255,255,255' for background (14:44:30) LaTeX: 'latex' started (14:44:30) LaTeX: 'latex' ended normally with exitcode '0' (14:44:30) LaTeX: 'dvipng' started (14:44:30) LaTeX: 'dvipng' ended normally with exitcode '0' (14:44:30) LaTeX: image creation exited with status '0' But effectively all I get is *$$test$$* instead of the desired rendering output from Latex.