diff --git a/.github/workflows/bsd.yml b/.github/workflows/bsd.yml
index 603ad8c0a954..de6ce9137233 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/bsd.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/bsd.yml
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ jobs:
             blinker \
             flake8 \
             mako \
-            mrkd \
             pytest-sentry \
             pytest-test-groups==1.0.3 \
             pytest-custom-exit-code==0.3.0 \
diff --git a/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.alpine b/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.alpine
index d1ab045f9f05..62261ef3d3d4 100644
--- a/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.alpine
+++ b/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.alpine
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ COPY . lightning
 RUN cd lightning && \
     git submodule update --init --recursive && \
     ./configure && \
-    pip3 install mrkd mistune==0.8.4 && \
     make -j$(nproc) && \
     make install
 
diff --git a/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.builder b/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.builder
index ff4d15fed2b0..4d24adab9c4b 100644
--- a/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.builder
+++ b/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.builder
@@ -65,5 +65,4 @@ RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip && \
 	tqdm==4.26.0 \
 	pytest-test-groups==1.0.3 \
 	flake8==3.5.0 \
-	pytest-rerunfailures==3.1 \
-	mrkd==0.1.6
+	pytest-rerunfailures==3.1
diff --git a/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.builder.fedora b/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.builder.fedora
index 897e4d0c3949..4a43c033e2e8 100644
--- a/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.builder.fedora
+++ b/contrib/docker/Dockerfile.builder.fedora
@@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ RUN wget https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-$BITCOIN_VERSION/bitcoin-$BITCOIN_
     rm -rf bitcoin.tar.gz bitcoin-$BITCOIN_VERSION
 
 RUN python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip && \
-    python3 -m pip install python-bitcoinlib==0.10.2 pytest==3.0.5 setuptools==36.6.0 pytest-test-groups==1.0.3 flake8==3.5.0 pytest-rerunfailures==3.1 ephemeral-port-reserve==1.1.0 mrkd==0.1.6
+    python3 -m pip install python-bitcoinlib==0.10.2 pytest==3.0.5 setuptools==36.6.0 pytest-test-groups==1.0.3 flake8==3.5.0 pytest-rerunfailures==3.1 ephemeral-port-reserve==1.1.0
diff --git a/contrib/docker/linuxarm32v7.Dockerfile b/contrib/docker/linuxarm32v7.Dockerfile
index ffcfb490792c..c0153d09c659 100644
--- a/contrib/docker/linuxarm32v7.Dockerfile
+++ b/contrib/docker/linuxarm32v7.Dockerfile
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ RUN git clone --recursive /tmp/lightning . && \
 
 ARG DEVELOPER=0
 ENV PYTHON_VERSION=3
-RUN pip3 install mrkd
 RUN ./configure --prefix=/tmp/lightning_install --enable-static && make -j3 DEVELOPER=${DEVELOPER} && make install
 
 FROM arm32v7/debian:buster-slim as final
diff --git a/contrib/docker/linuxarm64v8.Dockerfile b/contrib/docker/linuxarm64v8.Dockerfile
index 3e8fe5d3f982..89be7a46b121 100644
--- a/contrib/docker/linuxarm64v8.Dockerfile
+++ b/contrib/docker/linuxarm64v8.Dockerfile
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ RUN git clone --recursive /tmp/lightning . && \
 
 ARG DEVELOPER=0
 ENV PYTHON_VERSION=3
-RUN pip3 install mrkd
 RUN ./configure --prefix=/tmp/lightning_install --enable-static && make -j3 DEVELOPER=${DEVELOPER} && make install
 
 FROM arm64v8/debian:buster-slim as final
diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.md b/doc/INSTALL.md
index a56fae0bb86a..eeac81d4abda 100644
--- a/doc/INSTALL.md
+++ b/doc/INSTALL.md
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ There are two ways to build core lightning, and this depends on how you want use
 To build cln to just install a tagged or master version you can use the following commands:
 
     pip3 install --upgrade pip
-    pip3 install mako mistune==0.8.4 mrkd
     ./configure
     make
     sudo make install
@@ -175,7 +174,7 @@ fiddle with compile time options:
 
     # cd /usr/ports/net-p2p/c-lightning && make install
 
-mrkd is required to build man pages from markdown files (not done by the port):
+Install the python dependencies.
 
     # cd /usr/ports/devel/py-pip && make install
     $ pip install --user poetry
@@ -210,7 +209,9 @@ pkg_add git python gmake py3-pip libtool gmp
 pkg_add automake # (select highest version, automake1.16.2 at time of writing)
 pkg_add autoconf # (select highest version, autoconf-2.69p2 at time of writing)
 ```
-Install `mako` and `mrkd` otherwise we run into build errors:
+
+Install python dependencies with `poetry`
+
 ```
 pip3.7 install --user poetry
 poetry install
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index fae5d0130ee6..623e5cad90e9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ python = "^3.7"
 pyln-client = { path = "./contrib/pyln-client", develop = true }
 pyln-proto = { path = "./contrib/pyln-proto", develop = true }
 Mako = "^1.1.6"
-mrkd = { git = "https://github.com/refi64/mrkd.git", rev = "781f05eb9898ca652f18eed29b3c956389e6a2a7" }
 websocket-client = "^1.2.3"
 grpcio-tools = "1.47.0"
 grpcio = "1.47.0"