diff --git a/doc-requirements.txt b/doc-requirements.txt
index 12d796e31..75415ebdb 100644
--- a/doc-requirements.txt
+++ b/doc-requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
 sphinx>=1.4.4
 astor>=0.5
 git+https://github.com/simphony/traitlet-documenter.git
--r requirements.txt
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fa1f04530..f9b1ce116 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,28 +1,40 @@
+import os
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 from remoteappmanager import __version__
 
 VERSION = __version__
 
+
+requirements = [
+    "setuptools>=21.0",
+    "traitlets>=4.1",
+    "tornado>=4.3",
+    "requests>=2.10.0",
+    "escapism>=0.0.1",
+    "jinja2>=2.8",
+    "jupyter_client>=4.3.0",
+    "click>=6.6",
+    "tabulate>=0.7.5",
+]
+
+# Unfortunately RTD cannot install jupyterhub because jupyterhub needs bower,
+# and that is not available. We prevent the request for the unreleased jhub
+# by skipping it if we are on RTD
+# We also have problems with requests as docker-py wants <2.11 and RTD
+# provides 2.11.1
+
+on_rtd = os.environ.get('READTHEDOCS') == 'True'
+if not on_rtd:
+    requirements.extend(["jupyterhub>=0.7.0dev0", "docker-py>=1.8"])
+
 # main setup configuration class
 setup(
     name='remoteappmanager',
     version=VERSION,
     author='SimPhoNy Project',
     description='Remote application manager sub-executable',
-    install_requires=[
-        "setuptools>=21.0",
-        "traitlets>=4.1",
-        "tornado>=4.3",
-        "docker-py>=1.8",
-        "requests>=2.10.0",
-        "escapism>=0.0.1",
-        "jinja2>=2.8",
-        "jupyterhub>=0.7.0dev0",
-        "jupyter_client>=4.3.0",
-        "click>=6.6",
-        "tabulate>=0.7.5",
-    ],
+    install_requires=requirements,
     packages=find_packages(),
     include_package_data=True,
     entry_points={