Prerequisite packages Base packages:: sphinx Optional packages:: sphinx_rtd_theme latex (for pdf creation) To build the documentation in sphinx, from this folder run:: make html This generates a html documentation tree under spex-docs/build :: make latexpdf This generates a pdf documentation tree under spex-docs/build You can browse to ``spex-docs/build/html/index.html`` to see the documentation in html format. If you received a distribution file, you should already find the compiled documentation in ``spex-docs/build/html/index.html`` .. note:: For a nicer html format, install the Read The Docs theme, using :: pip install sphinx_rtd_theme