diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index f12c3cedad..ecc001fe42 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ jobs:
               DUCKIEFLEET_ROOT: /root/duckiefleet
               DUCKIETOWN_ROOT: /root/project
               DUCKIETOWN_DATA: /root/duckietown-data
-              READTHEDOCS: True # needed to make Picamera install 
+
               COLUMNS: 160
      parallelism: 4
      resource_class: large
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ jobs:
                 # python -m venv venv
                 #
                 # . venv/bin/activate
-
+                export READTHEDOCS=True # needed to make Picamera install
                 pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt
 
                 make python-module-stats