Skip to content

Commit 4dce12c

Browse files
committed
WIP: Add a tip for - perhaps - the most common kind of development setup. We need to make expected system requirements explict perhaps.
1 parent 7ac39ee commit 4dce12c

File tree

1 file changed

+16
-0
lines changed

1 file changed

+16
-0
lines changed

docs/dev/install.rst

Lines changed: 16 additions & 0 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -23,6 +23,22 @@ Set up your environment
2323

2424
#. install `Docker <https://www.docker.com/>`_ following `their installation guide <https://docs.docker.com/install/>`_.
2525

26+
.. tip::
27+
28+
If you run an Ubuntu-flavoured system, you can try the following:
29+
30+
.. prompt:: bash
31+
32+
sudo apt install docker.io
33+
sudo adduser $(whoami) docker
34+
35+
This will install Docker Community Edition maintained by an Ubuntu/Canonical team.
36+
37+
.. warning::
38+
39+
While setting up a Read the Docs development is fairly simple, it does consume a bit of resources: Expect to use ~10 GB for storing Docker images and run the environment on a system with 8+ GB of memory.
40+
41+
2642
#. clone the ``readthedocs.org`` repository:
2743

2844
.. prompt:: bash

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)