diff --git a/docs/about.rst b/docs/about.rst
index a7c747b..277a2fb 100644
--- a/docs/about.rst
+++ b/docs/about.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
 About
 =====
 
-**VPP Version:** 19.08-rc0~238-g0a715cd03
+**VPP Version:** 19.08-rc0~300-g9080096f7
 
-**Built on:** Fri May 17 17:37:25 GMT 2019
+**Built on:** Tue May 28 13:45:28 GMT 2019
diff --git a/docs/gettingstarted/writingdocs/buildingrst.rst b/docs/gettingstarted/writingdocs/buildingrst.rst
index 46830ca..474257d 100644
--- a/docs/gettingstarted/writingdocs/buildingrst.rst
+++ b/docs/gettingstarted/writingdocs/buildingrst.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,17 @@
    $ cd vpp
 
 
+Install the Necessary Packages
+===============================
+
+Before building the docs there are some packages that are needed. To install
+these packages on ubuntu execute the following.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   $ sudo apt-get install python3-all python3-setuptools python3-pip
+
+ 
 Create a Virtual Environment using virtualenv
 ===============================================