diff --git a/contrib/mkdocs/install_mkdocs.sh b/contrib/mkdocs/install_mkdocs.sh
index 16ae8a45ef..3b5cb433be 100755
--- a/contrib/mkdocs/install_mkdocs.sh
+++ b/contrib/mkdocs/install_mkdocs.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-if [[ $(command -v pandoc 2 > /dev/null) ]]; then
-    echo need to install pandoc
+#if [[ $(command -v pandoc 2 > /dev/null) ]]; then
+#    echo need to install pandoc
     sudo apt-get install -y pandoc
-fi
+#fi
 pandoc --version
 if [[ "$?" != 0 ]]; then
     echo broken pandoc installation