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author | Alfa80 <fakoor@gmail.com> | 2020-07-07 17:13:18 +0430 |
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committer | Alfa80 <fakoor@gmail.com> | 2020-07-07 17:13:18 +0430 |
commit | 5295cdb79d1d06a1f60415ef0dea6f173be14dd4 (patch) | |
tree | fae471d73ba0b856b96033d7d0bea6bb6e1c694d | |
parent | 235ff7934f63d8b113bfba129803d6ebf4e033c3 (diff) | |
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Fix setup instructions for documentation build
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Required Debian Packages: Debian, requires some extra steps for installing `sphinx`, `sphinx-autobuild` and `sphinx-rtd-theme` packages: -First ensure that phython3 is the default: +First ensure that phython2 & phython3 are installed and phython3 is the default: ```bash python --version ``` @@ -35,19 +35,35 @@ Alternatively, to make python3 the default, revise the following line to point to the relevant 3.x version of the binary on your system: ```bash -sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3.... +sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3 0 ``` Then follow these steps to install sphinx group of packages: ```bash sudo apt-get install python3-sphinx -sudo apt-get install python3-sphinx-rtd-theme ``` -To build the html, start a webeserver, and view the output: +Although mostly everything uses phython3, But to install this specific +package, make sure that pip points to the python2 version of the package manager: + +```bash +python --version +``` + +Then run: + +```bash +sudo pip install sphinx-rtd-theme +``` + + +Do the following to build the html and start a webeserver: * Run `make livehtml` inside the `docs` folder -* Browse to http://localhost:8000 +Then, to view the live output: +* Browse to http://localhost:8000 +Note: The changes you save to the sources are represented in the live HTML outout +automatically (and almost instantly) without the need to rebuild or refresh manually. ## Docker |