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+# Desktop client documentation
+
+- The main nextcloud Documentation is found at https://github.com/nextcloud/documentation
+- The rst files from the current stable branch will be parsed with sphinx to be used at https://docs.nextcloud.com/desktop/3.0/
+
+## How to build the documentation
+
+- After installing [sphinx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org) you can run:
+
+```
+$ git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop.git
+$ cd desktop
+$ cd docs
+$ sphinx-build -b html -D html_theme='nextcloud_com' -d _build/doctrees   . _build/html/com
+```
+
+The documentation html files will be at ```desktop/docs/_build/html/com```.