The same python environment above can be achieve achieved with conda. To do so, create a conda environment with a conda create -n e3sm_docs mkdocs-material pymdown-extensions mkdocs-monorepo-plugin mdutils mkdocs-bibtex then conda activate e3sm_docs to use the environment.

EAMxx docs use an automated routine to populate the namelist parameters. In order to avoid warnings on this step, please ensure you have a copy of the CIME submodule inside your main repo. Proceed to executing eamxx-params-docs-autogen in the components/eamxx/scripts directory. Then, you will be able to build with mkdocs build --strict --verbose (to convert any warning into an error, which we use in the PR checking).