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# Podman Documentation
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The online man pages and other documents regarding Podman can be found at
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[Read The Docs](https://podman.readthedocs.io). The man pages
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can be found under the [Commands](https://podman.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Commands.html)
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link on that page.
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# Build the Docs
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## Directory Structure
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| Markdown source for man pages | docs/source/markdown/ |
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| man pages aliases as .so files | docs/source/markdown/links/ |
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| restructured text for readthedocs.io | docs/rst/ |
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| target for output | docs/build |
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| man pages | docs/build/man |
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| remote linux man pages | docs/build/remote/linux |
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| remote darwin man pages | docs/build/remote/darwin |
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| remote windows html pages | docs/build/remote/windows |
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## Support files
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| docs/remote-docs.sh | Read the docs/source/markdown files and format for each platform |
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| docs/links-to-html.lua | pandoc filter to do aliases for html files |
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| docs/use-pagetitle.lua | pandoc filter to set html document title |
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## Manpage Syntax
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The syntax for the formatting of all man pages can be found [here](MANPAGE_SYNTAX.md).
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## API Reference
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The [latest online documentation](http://docs.podman.io/en/latest/_static/api.html) is
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automatically generated by two cooperating automation systems based on committed upstream
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source code. Firstly, [the Cirrus-CI docs task](../contrib/cirrus/README.md#docs-task) builds
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`pkg/api/swagger.yaml` and uploads it to a public-facing location (Google Storage Bucket -
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an online service for storing unstructured data). Second, [Read The Docs](readthedocs.com)
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reacts to the github.com repository change, building the content for the [libpod documentation
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site](https://podman.readthedocs.io/). This site includes for the API section,
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some javascript which consumes the uploaded `swagger.yaml` file directly from the Google
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Storage Bucket.
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Since there are multiple systems and local cache is involved, it's possible that updates to
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documentation (especially the swagger/API docs) will lag by 10-or-so minutes. However,
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because the client (i.e. your web browser) is fetching content from multiple locations that
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do not share a common domain, accessing the API section may show a stack-trace similar to
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the following:
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If reloading the page, or clearing your local cache does not fix the problem, it is
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likely caused by broken metadata needed to protect clients from cross-site-scripting
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style attacks. Please [notify a maintainer](https://github.com/containers/podman#communications)
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so they may investigate how/why the `swagger.yaml` file's CORS-metadata is
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incorrect, or the file isn't accessible for some other reason.
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## Local Testing
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Assuming that you have the [dependencies](https://podman.io/getting-started/installation#build-and-run-dependencies)
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installed, then also install (showing Fedora in the example):
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```
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# dnf install python3-sphinx python3-recommonmark
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# pip install sphinx-markdown-tables
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```
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After that completes, cd to the `docs` directory in your Podman sandbox and then do `make html`.
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You can then preview the html files in `docs/build/html` with:
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```
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python -m http.server 8000 --directory build/html
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```
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