diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fcc89020c..3d51e1c17 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,9 +21,11 @@ Pip install the following packages, which are also listed in `requirements.txt`:
 
 - pyscf
 - sphinx
-- sphinx-material
 - sphinxcontrib-bibtex
 - nbsphinx
+- pydata-sphinx-theme
+- myst-parser
+- sphinx_design
 
 If you have multiple versions of PySCF on your machine and you would like so use
 a specific version, set `PYTHONPATH` to include the specific PySCF source
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7f32f14ac..69d0f0d2d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 pyscf
 sphinx
-ablog
-sphinx-material
 sphinxcontrib-bibtex
 nbsphinx
 Pygments==2.15.0