{section: Overview}

In 2019 we migrated the HTCondor Manual from our old LaTeX format into the Sphinx documentation generator using the reStructuredText format. We will also be hosting it on Read the Docs. The manual can be found here:

http://htcondor.readthedocs.io

{subsection: Prerequisites}

1: Install Python. The version doesn't matter.
*::https://www.python.org/downloads

1: Install Sphinx. The recommended way to install Sphinx is via pip:
{code}
sudo pip install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme
{endcode}
On RHEL and CentOS *we do not support* installing Sphinx from =yum= or RPM. The available package is an old version which does not support all our extensions.
For other Linux distributions, Windows and macOS, you can find instructions here:
*::https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/installation.html

1: [Optional] Install python-docutils. This is only needed if you want to generate man pages for the manual:
{code}
sudo yum install python-docutils
{endcode}



{section: Building}

{subsection: Building and previewing the manual locally}

*:: The manual pages exist in our git repository under the /docs folder