Documentation for the Greenbone Community Edition

The documentation is build automatically via GitHub Actions and available at https://greenbone.github.io/docs/

Requirements

For a manual build locally Python >= 3.9 and poetry is required.

Install Poetry

The project requires poetry >= 1.8.0.

To install poetry it is recommended to use pipx. pipx can be installed with the following command on Debian based systems:

sudo apt install pipx

Install poetry using pipx

python3 -m pipx install poetry

Install and Upgrade Dependencies

When building the docs you should ensure that all the dependencies are installed and up to date. To install for the first time or to update the project dependencies via poetry run:

poetry install

You should run this command once a week to install the latest dependencies.

Manual Build

After installing poetry and the project's dependencies, the docs can be built with:

poetry run make html

To open the generated HTML docs with Firefox you can run:

firefox _build/html/index.html

Auto Rebuild

Alternatively it is possible to start a local HTTP server that automatically rebuilds the docs on every file change:

poetry run make livehtml

To open the served docs with Firefox you can run:

firefox http://127.0.0.1:8000

Starting From Scratch

If something is wrong with your dependencies or you just want to re-start from a clean environment you need to remove the virtual environment. First of all ensure that poetry's virtual environment is placed within the project:

poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true

Afterwards the virtual environment including all installed dependencies can be deleted:

rm -rf .venv