Documentation build instructions

Clear Linux* OS documentation is written using reStructuredText and built using Sphinx. Follow the instructions in this README to build the documentation locally for development and testing.

Please make yourself familiar with our contribution guidelines before submitting a contribution.

Clone the documentation repository

Clone the documentation repository to your local machine.

git clone https://github.com/clearlinux/clear-linux-documentation

Requirements

Make sure you have Python 3 installed to start.

The Sphinx documentation provides instructions for installing Sphinx on various platforms.

Use pip3 to install additional Python dependencies listed in the requirements.txt file found in the repository:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run the build

We build our documentation using Sphinx. In the source directory of your local clear-linux-documentation repository, preview changes to the documentation by building the docs in the default language (English) by running make html:

make html

sphinx-build -b html -d _build/doctrees   . _build/html
Running Sphinx v1.8.0
making output directory...
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build succeeded, 0 warnings.

The HTML pages are in _build/html.

Build finished. The HTML pages are in _build/html.

Open one of the HTML pages found in source/_build/html in a web browser to view the rendered documentation.

If you want to build the documentation exactly as seen on the website, use make py followed by make htmlall. This builds some external dependenices and all supported languages.

Additional help

Cleaning up

When testing changes in the documentation, make sure to remove the previous build before building again by running make clean:

make clean

This will completely remove the previous build output.

Convenience script

This bash script (Linux only) includes both make clean and make html. It also starts a simple Python web server that displays a preview of the site at http://localhost:8000 on your local machine.

./checkwork.sh

To stop the web server simply use ctrl-c.