diff --git a/.github/workflows/docs.yml b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
index 926739cc..bf57f09a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/docs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/docs.yml
@@ -24,14 +24,16 @@ jobs:
       name: github-pages
       url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    container: sphinxdoc/sphinx-latexpdf:5.3.0
+    container: sphinxdoc/sphinx
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
     - name: sphinx
       run: |
-        cd docs
         pip install furo aiida-core
+        # temp fix install the package
+        pip install .
+        cd docs
         make html
     - name: upload
       uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v1
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 50d6555c..8c249df8 100755
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 import sys
 import time
 
+
 from aiida import load_profile
 from aiida.storage.sqlite_temp import SqliteTempBackend
 
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@
 #
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
 release = aiida_mlip.__version__
+
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = ".".join(release.split(".")[:2])