This is a packaging of the Sphinx-1.0.x series for older Fedora and RHEL releases. It is designed to be parallel-installable with the version of Sphinx that ships with that particular release; this is because the change in documentation format between Sphinx 0.6.x and 1.0.x that might cause problem with building existing packages that rely on Sphinx 0.6.x to build their documentation. If you are using Sphinx with the provided scripts, the only change you need to make is to replace calls to sphinx-* with sphinx-1.0-*. If you are importing the Python module, modify sys.path as such: >>> import sys >>> sys.path.insert(0, '/usr/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages/Sphinx-1.0.4-pyX.Y.egg/') >>> import sphinx replacing X.Y with your version of Python (e.g. 2.5, 2.6) For more details, see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python_Eggs#Multiple_Versions