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Location of sphinx-build on CentOS

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.

Solution

  • 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.