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+# Contributing to this documentation {#chap-contributing}
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+The DocBook sources of the Nixpkgs manual are in the [doc](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/doc) subdirectory of the Nixpkgs repository.
+
+You can quickly check your edits with `make`:
+
+```ShellSession
+$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs/doc
+$ nix-shell
+[nix-shell]$ make $makeFlags
+```
+
+If you experience problems, run `make debug` to help understand the docbook errors.
+
+After making modifications to the manual, it's important to build it before committing. You can do that as follows:
+
+```ShellSession
+$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs/doc
+$ nix-shell
+[nix-shell]$ make clean
+[nix-shell]$ nix-build .
+```
+
+If the build succeeds, the manual will be in `./result/share/doc/nixpkgs/manual.html`.