OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows you to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around.

This repository contains the documentation for OSGeo live.

The majority of our documentation is generated from reStructured text sources using Sphinx. reSt is similar to wiki markup, and readable in plain ascii. As a quick check, github will (partially) render reSt documents as HTML.

1. Install python and sphinx version 0.6.4 or greater (as provided with Ubuntu >10.04), (install_main_docs.sh does this too) :: sudo apt-get install python-sphinx

2. The included make file will generate the documentation :: git clone https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc.git cd OSGeoLive-doc make html

View output in _build/html/en/index.html

3. It is also possible to generate a debian package from the documentation :: sudo apt install devscripts debuild -b sudo dpkg -i ../osgeolive-docs_11.0~beta1_all.deb

The actual packagename will depend on the current version in debian/changelog

• http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Overview
• http://sphinx.pocoo.org
• http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html
• http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/sampledoc/