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+title: Create live devbox for wiki.rockylinux.org
+author: Lukas Magauer
+revision_date: 2022-04-28
+---
+
+# How to create a live system to work on the documentation
+
+There are several ways how to setup your development environment, here are the currently used once by the testing team:
+
+## Vagrant
+
+For now here is the link to [Trevor's vagrant box setup](https://github.com/tcooper/rocky-linux-wikibox), this might be merged here in the future!
+
+## WSL
+
+- Make sure the Windows Subsystem for Linux is enabled on your machine
+- Download the [Cloud image](https://github.com/rocky-linux/sig-cloud-instance-images/actions/workflows/build.yml)
+- Get the actual disk out of the image (extract rocky-8.5-docker.tar)
+- Run `wsl --import <machine-name> <path-to-vm-dir> <path-to/rocky-8.5-docker.tar> --version 2` to create the machine
+- Run `wsl -d <machine-name>` to initially login to the machine
+- Run `dnf -y update` to update the system
+- Run `dnf -y install git python39-pip` to install Python 3.9 and pip
+- Run `python3.9 -m pip install -U pip` to update pip
+- Clone the repo `git clone <path-to-git-project>`
+- And get into the folder of the repo `cd <git-project-name>`
+- Sometimes you will need to switch the branch here
+- Install all the requirements of the repo `python3.9 -m pip install -r requirements.txt`
+- If you just want to look at the output run `mkdocs serve 2>&1 | tee ./mkdocs.serve.log`
+
+To develop then, the easiest way is to use VS Code with the [Remote - WSL](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl), where you have to open the repo in the container (click on the Remote symbol on the lower left, 'Open folder in WSL...').
+
+And finally run `mkdocs serve 2>&1 | tee ./mkdocs.serve.log` in the terminal of this VS Code session. Then you are ready to start changing stuff!
+
+## Docker
+
+TODO
+
+{% include 'testing/rc_content_bottom.md' %}