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+Building the documentation:
+
+You will need the following packages:
+ * xsltproc
+ * docbook
+ * docbook-xml
+ * docbook-xsl
+ * docbook-xsl-doc-html
+ * fop
+
+These are the debian/ubuntu package names; on other systems there are probably similar.
+
+
+General Build:
+> make
+
+Check the validity of the source
+> make check
+
+Build just the html:
+> make html
+
+Build just the pdf:
+> make pdf