diff --git a/documentation/poky.yaml b/documentation/poky.yaml
index 14f45055d7..d50b8321a3 100644
--- a/documentation/poky.yaml
+++ b/documentation/poky.yaml
@@ -86,3 +86,4 @@ CENTOS8_HOST_PACKAGES_ESSENTIAL : "-y epel-release
      socat perl-Data-Dumper perl-Text-ParseWords perl-Thread-Queue python3-pip \
      python3-GitPython python3-jinja2 python3-pexpect xz which SDL-devel xterm \
      rpcgen mesa-libGL-devel"
+PIP3_HOST_PACKAGES_DOC : "$ sudo pip3 install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme pyyaml"
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-system-requirements.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-system-requirements.rst
index 403b486b34..fe7c9252ca 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/ref-system-requirements.rst
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/ref-system-requirements.rst
@@ -141,7 +141,14 @@ supported Ubuntu or Debian Linux distribution:
    Yocto Project documentation manuals:
    ::
 
-      $ sudo apt-get install make xsltproc docbook-utils fop dblatex xmlto
+      $ sudo apt-get install make python3-pip
+      &PIP3_HOST_PACKAGES_DOC;
+
+   .. note::
+
+      It is currently not possible to build out documentation from Debian 8
+      (Jessie) because of outdated ``pip3`` and ``python3``. ``python3-sphinx``
+      is too outdated.
 
 Fedora Packages
 ---------------
@@ -159,8 +166,8 @@ supported Fedora Linux distribution:
    Yocto Project documentation manuals:
    ::
 
-      $ sudo dnf install  docbook-style-dsssl docbook-style-xsl \
-      docbook-dtds docbook-utils fop libxslt dblatex xmlto
+      $ sudo dnf install make python3-pip which
+      &PIP3_HOST_PACKAGES_DOC;
 
 openSUSE Packages
 -----------------
@@ -178,7 +185,8 @@ supported openSUSE Linux distribution:
    Yocto Project documentation manuals:
    ::
 
-      $ sudo zypper install dblatex xmlto
+      $ sudo zypper install make python3-pip which
+      &PIP3_HOST_PACKAGES_DOC;
 
 
 CentOS-7 Packages
@@ -207,8 +215,8 @@ supported CentOS-7 Linux distribution:
    Yocto Project documentation manuals:
    ::
 
-      $ sudo yum install docbook-style-dsssl docbook-style-xsl \
-      docbook-dtds docbook-utils fop libxslt dblatex xmlto
+      $ sudo yum install make python3-pip which
+      &PIP3_HOST_PACKAGES_DOC;
 
 CentOS-8 Packages
 -----------------
@@ -239,8 +247,8 @@ supported CentOS-8 Linux distribution:
    Yocto Project documentation manuals:
    ::
 
-      $ sudo dnf install docbook-style-dsssl docbook-style-xsl \
-      docbook-dtds docbook-utils fop libxslt dblatex xmlto
+      $ sudo dnf install make python3-pip which
+      &PIP3_HOST_PACKAGES_DOC;
 
 Required Git, tar, Python and gcc Versions
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