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 We use [MkDocs](http://www.mkdocs.org/) to create a static site from this repository. For local development,
 
 1. [Install MkDocs](http://www.mkdocs.org/#installation). `pip install mkdocs`
-1. Install the [MkDocs Material theme](https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material). `pip install mkdocs-material`
+1. Install the [MkDocs Material theme](https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material). `pip install mkdocs-material==0.2.4`
 1. To test locally, run `mkdocs serve` from the project directory.
 
 ## Deploying