diff --git a/doc/sphinx/Makefile.am b/doc/sphinx/Makefile.am
index 8beac81c2c..7a07959929 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc/sphinx/Makefile.am
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ mans: $(man_sources) api-files.txt mes-files.txt
 #   pip install pip-tools
 # Run this when dependencies are added, changed or removed.
 update-python-dependencies: ./src/requirements.in
-	rm ./src/requirements.txt
+	rm -f ./src/requirements.txt
 	pip-compile -r ./src/requirements.in
 
 clean-local:
diff --git a/doc/sphinx/src/requirements.txt b/doc/sphinx/src/requirements.txt
index de219ea063..ec3296ecf5 100644
--- a/doc/sphinx/src/requirements.txt
+++ b/doc/sphinx/src/requirements.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.10
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.11
 # by the following command:
 #
 #    pip-compile ./src/requirements.in
 #
 alabaster==0.7.16
     # via sphinx
-babel==2.14.0
+babel==2.15.0
     # via sphinx
 certifi==2024.2.2
     # via requests
@@ -16,23 +16,23 @@ docutils==0.20.1
     # via
     #   sphinx
     #   sphinx-rtd-theme
-idna==3.6
+idna==3.7
     # via requests
 imagesize==1.4.1
     # via sphinx
-jinja2==3.1.3
+jinja2==3.1.4
     # via sphinx
 markupsafe==2.1.5
     # via jinja2
 packaging==24.0
     # via sphinx
-pygments==2.17.2
+pygments==2.18.0
     # via sphinx
-requests==2.31.0
+requests==2.32.2
     # via sphinx
 snowballstemmer==2.2.0
     # via sphinx
-sphinx==7.2.6
+sphinx==7.3.7
     # via
     #   -r ./src/requirements.in
     #   sphinx-rtd-theme