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 In addition to serving up standalone notebooks, this repository also includes the infrastructure needed to build the tutorials into HTML documentation using [Sphinx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/).  Along with the Qiskit dependencies, building the documentation requires the following:
 
+1. Fork and clone the forked repository. 
+2. Create a new virtual environment and install pip:
 ```bash
-pip install Sphinx
-pip install sphinx-rtd-theme
-pip install nbsphinx
+conda create -n qiskit-tutorials-dev pip
+```
+3. Activate virtual environment:
+```bash
+conda activate qiskit-tutorials-dev
+```
+4. Install python dependencies in your new virtual environment:
+```bash
+pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
+```
+5. Install non-python dependencies:
+```bash
+conda install pandoc graphviz
+```
+6. Create a local build:
+```bash
+sphinx-build -b html . _build
 ```
 
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