diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index 0090dd071e..866364f156 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ installed. Also install the following libraries:
     $ sudo gem install jekyll jekyll-redirect-from pygments.rb
     $ sudo pip install Pygments
     # Following is needed only for generating API docs
-    $ sudo pip install sphinx pypandoc
+    $ sudo pip install sphinx pypandoc mkdocs
     $ sudo Rscript -e 'install.packages(c("knitr", "devtools", "roxygen2", "testthat", "rmarkdown"), repos="http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/")'
 ```
 (Note: If you are on a system with both Ruby 1.9 and Ruby 2.0 you may need to replace gem with gem2.0)
diff --git a/sql/create-docs.sh b/sql/create-docs.sh
index 275e4c391a..1d2d602c97 100755
--- a/sql/create-docs.sh
+++ b/sql/create-docs.sh
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ if ! hash python 2>/dev/null; then
 fi
 
 if ! hash mkdocs 2>/dev/null; then
-  echo "Missing mkdocs in your path, skipping SQL documentation generation."
-  exit 0
+  echo "Missing mkdocs in your path, trying to install mkdocs for SQL documentation generation."
+  pip install mkdocs
 fi
 
 # Now create the markdown file