amFOSS Wiki

amFOSS Wiki built with Sphinx using a theme provided by Read the Docs.

💽 Installation Instructions

Install requirements on Linux

Before installing the Sphinx and readthedocs.org packages, you will need:

• the python3 language and its pip3 package manager
• a version of GNU Make,
• the git tool.

Install requirements on Windows

Like on Linux environments, on Microsoft Windows, you need to install:

• the python language and its pip package manager
• All the python modules requirements with the pip command
• GNU Make tool.
• git tool.

Installing Sphinx (every platform)

To build the HTML website (or any other format supported by Sphinx, like PDF, EPUB or LaTeX), you need to install Sphinx >= 1.3 as well as (for the HTML) the readthedocs.org theme.

Those tools are best installed using pip, Python's module installer. The Python 3 version might be provided (on Linux distros) as pip3 or python3-pip.

Clone the repository

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/amfoss/wiki.git
$ cd wiki

Create a python3 virtualenv, and activate the environment

$ virtualenv -p python3 venv
$ source venv/bin/activate

You can then run:

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Building the HTML website

You can then build the HTML documentation from the root folder of this repository with:

$ make html

On Windows, building is still done at the root folder of this repository using the following command (make linux command is replaced with make.exe):

$ make.exe html

You can then test the changes live by opening build/html/index.html in your favorite browser.

Debugging Tip:

• Delete the build cache before building documents if you make changes in the code by running the command make clean or using the sphinx-build -E option.