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From the Options menu, select “create symlinks in standard directories” (<tt>L</tt>).

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The default directories are usually okay.

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Press R to return the main menu.

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Once those are installed, we can install the remainder of the packages with the <tt>install-pkgs.sh</tt> script. (Note that this hasn’t been tested yet and it’s pure guesswork on Kevin’s part! Let us know if it does or doesn’t work for you.)

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Run the <tt>install-pkgs.sh</tt> script that’s in the <tt>ubuntu-manual-<em>version</em>/pkgs/</tt> directory to make sure you have all the required packages.

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If everything checks out okay, you can build the PDF:

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This will generate the file <tt>ubuntu-manual.pdf</tt>, which is the English manual in PDF format. To make the manual in another language use the following command:

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where <tt>LANG</tt> is the language code. (See the <tt>po/</tt> directory for a list of supported languages.) This requires a <tt>.po</tt> file (<i>e.g.</i>, <tt>nl.po</tt>) in the given language in the subdirectory <tt>po/</tt>.

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Start working with the TeX files

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The first priority for authors is to write the content of the manual, but the manual isn't just a simple PDF. Authors should use LaTeX language to mark up the text. You don't have to learn the whole language to do your job as an author; there are specific tags that are used. Our <a href="http://files.ubuntu-manual.org/style-guide.pdf">style guide</a> (PDF) should teach you all you need to know about LaTeX.