Location of sphinx-build on CentOS

Question

I have a brand new CentOS 6 box and wanted to install sphinx, in order to compile documents as generated by readthedocs.org i.e. rst files.

In a previous ubuntu box I was running

make html

and that would invoke the

sphinx-build

command and compile the documentation.

I downloaded the latest version of sphinx and installed it as such:

sudo wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.1.9-1.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
sudo localinstall sphinx-2.1.9-1.rhel6.x86_64.rpm 

Everything seems to be fine but sphinx-build is nowhere to be found.

Any pointers are more than appreciated.

Answer 1

You are mixing up two different tools named Sphinx: the full text search server (http://sphinxsearch.com/) and the documentaton generator (http://sphinx-doc.org/). You need the latter tool in order to compile documents usingsphinx-build.

Answer 2

You can also install rpm package of sphinx (Python documentation generator) with yum at CentOS 6 using:

yum install python-sphinx.noarch

at Fedora 20 using:

yum install python-sphinx-doc.noarch

Answer 3

A short addup, according to offical document, one just need to run pip install Sphinx to install the python documentation generator, sphinx. Or it can be downloaded from distribution package.