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Desktop client documentation

The main nextcloud Documentation is found at https://github.com/nextcloud/documentation

The rst files from the current stable branch will be parsed with sphinx to be used at https://docs.nextcloud.com/desktop/latest/

Dependencies

You will need to have Sphinx, which comes packaged with Python 3.

In addition, run the following to install PdfLatex and Doxygen.

  • On Linux:
$ sudo apt install doxygen python texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra

Note: You may use something other than apt depending on your distribution.

% brew install basictex doxygen python

How to build the documentation

In your repositories directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop.git
$ cd desktop
$ cd doc
$ sphinx-build -b html -D html_theme='nextcloud_com' -d _build/doctrees   . _build/html/com

The documentation html files will be at desktop/docs/_build/html/com.