--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ cleancache:
 
 notebooks:
 	@echo "Generating notebooks from examples/notebooks folder"
-	$(TOOLSPATH)$(NOTEBOOKBUILD) --execute=True --allow_errors=True
+	: # unfortunately no nbformat in debian yet (only experimental, depends on jupyter)
+	#$(TOOLSPATH)$(NOTEBOOKBUILD) --execute=True --allow_errors=True
 
 html:
     # make directories for images
@@ -66,13 +67,13 @@ html:
 	#$(TOOLSPATH)$(EXAMPLEBUILD)
 	@echo "Generating datasets from installed statsmodels.datasets"
 	$(TOOLSPATH)$(DATASETBUILD)
-	@echo "Generating notebooks from examples/notebooks folder"
-	$(TOOLSPATH)$(NOTEBOOKBUILD) --execute=True --allow_errors=True
+	#@echo "Generating notebooks from examples/notebooks folder"
+	#$(TOOLSPATH)$(NOTEBOOKBUILD) --execute=True --allow_errors=True
 	@echo "Running sphinx-build"
 	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b html $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(BUILDDIR)/html
-	@echo "Copying rendered example notebooks"
-	mkdir -p $(BUILDDIR)/html/examples/notebooks/generated
-	cp source/examples/notebooks/generated/*html $(BUILDDIR)/html/examples/notebooks/generated
+	#@echo "Copying rendered example notebooks"
+	#mkdir -p $(BUILDDIR)/html/examples/notebooks/generated
+	#cp source/examples/notebooks/generated/*html $(BUILDDIR)/html/examples/notebooks/generated
 	#$(TOOLSPATH)$(EXAMPLEBUILD)
 	$(TOOLSPATH)$(FOLDTOC) $(BUILDDIR)/html/index.html
 	#$(TOOLSPATH)$(FOLDTOC) $(BUILDDIR)/html/examples/index.html ../_static
