diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy_documentation.sh b/.github/workflows/deploy_documentation.sh
index 295e4924f6..c09927e6ff 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy_documentation.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy_documentation.sh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 # initial cleanup to be able to switch to gh-pages branch
 mv coverage/ coverage_tmp/
-rm -rf =1.11.0 *.info dependencies/
+sudo rm -rf =1.11.0 *.info dependencies/
 
 # switch to gh-pages branch
 git checkout origin/gh-pages
diff --git a/.github/workflows/requirements.txt b/.github/workflows/requirements.txt
index 9908f11a67..1601c2c90d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/requirements.txt
+++ b/.github/workflows/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Pygments==2.18.0
 pymdown-extensions==10.12
 pyplusplus==1.8.5
 setuptools==75.6.0
-six==1.16.0
+six==1.17.0
 testresources==2.0.1
 unittest-xml-reporting==3.2.0