add Sphinx as a dependency of building docs

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>

Closes #3388 from davies/doc_readme and squashes the following commits:

daa1482 [Davies Liu] add Sphinx dependency

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index d2d58e435d..1194840380 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ You can modify the default Jekyll build as follows:
 ## Pygments
 
 We also use pygments (http://pygments.org) for syntax highlighting in documentation markdown pages,
-so you will also need to install that (it requires Python) by running `sudo easy_install Pygments`.
+so you will also need to install that (it requires Python) by running `sudo pip install Pygments`.
 
 To mark a block of code in your markdown to be syntax highlighted by jekyll during the compile
 phase, use the following sytax:
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ phase, use the following sytax:
     // supported languages too.
     {% endhighlight %}
 
+## Sphinx
+
+We use Sphinx to generate Python API docs, so you will need to install it by running
+`sudo pip install sphinx`.
+
 ## API Docs (Scaladoc and Sphinx)
 
 You can build just the Spark scaladoc by running `sbt/sbt doc` from the SPARK_PROJECT_ROOT directory.