diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yaml b/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
index fedadc494..a02d3da56 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yaml
@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ jobs:
       with:
         fetch-depth: 0 # otherwise, you will failed to push refs to dest repo
     - name: install dacapo
-      # run: pip install .[docs]
+      # run: 
       run: |
         pip install sphinx-autodoc-typehints sphinx-autoapi sphinx-click sphinx-rtd-theme myst-parser jupytext ipykernel nbsphinx
         python -m ipykernel install --user --name python3
+        pip install .[docs]
+        
     - name: parse notebooks
       run: jupytext --to notebook --execute ./docs/source/notebooks/*.py
     - name: remove notebook scripts