diff --git a/doc/install.rst b/doc/install.rst
index 31ac8d79..14c5fbce 100644
--- a/doc/install.rst
+++ b/doc/install.rst
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Installation steps
 
 #. Download the sources of TRIQS from github into a ``src`` directory::
 
-     $ git clone git@github.com:TRIQS/triqs.git src
+     $ git clone https://github.com/TRIQS/triqs.git src
 
 #. Create an empty build directory where you will compile the code::
 
diff --git a/doc/installation/osx_lion.rst b/doc/installation/osx_lion.rst
index 032b67d7..4468405d 100644
--- a/doc/installation/osx_lion.rst
+++ b/doc/installation/osx_lion.rst
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Installation of the dependencies
   
      pip install sphinx
      easy_install pyparsing==1.5.7
-     git clone git://github.com/mathjax/MathJax.git MathJax
+     git clone https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax.git MathJax
 
 NB : you need pyparsing <=1.5.7 since apparently v.2.0 works only for python 3.