diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
index 9d7f5321c4238a30a3c61e5111f12f0f8c74732c..8e501e9d5956daa730f754e7cc06091378e86956 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -2,9 +2,29 @@
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
+default: help all
+
+sudo ?=
+
+
 .PHONY: all
+
+help:
+	@echo "Usage: "
+	@echo "make all # to build HTML from rst sources"
+	@echo "make clean # to cleanup"
+	@echo "make setup/debian sudo=sudo # To install build tools (on debian and derived)"
+
 all:
 	sphinx-build -W . build
 
 clean:
 	rm -rf ./build
+
+setup/debian: /etc/debian_version
+	${sudo} apt-get install -y \
+make \
+python3-sphinx-tabs \
+python3-sphinxcontrib.plantuml \
+python3-dask-sphinx-theme \
+# EOL