1# Contributing to this manual {#chap-contributing} 2 3The DocBook and CommonMark sources of NixOS' manual are in the [nixos/doc/manual](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/nixos/doc/manual) subdirectory of the [Nixpkgs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs) repository. 4 5You can quickly check your edits with the following: 6 7```ShellSession 8$ cd /path/to/nixpkgs 9$ ./nixos/doc/manual/md-to-db.sh 10$ nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux 11``` 12 13If the build succeeds, the manual will be in `./result/share/doc/nixos/index.html`.