diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 16c68f5..edece26 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ VALIDARGS="
    pylibwholegraph
    libwholegraph
    tests
-   docs
    all
    -v
    -g
@@ -50,7 +49,6 @@ HELP="$0 [<target> ...] [<flag> ...]
    pylibwholegraph            - build the pylibwholegraph Python package
    libwholegraph              - build the libwholegraph library
    tests                      - build the C++ tests
-   docs                       - build the docs
    all                        - build everything
  and <flag> is:
    -v                         - verbose build mode
@@ -260,40 +258,3 @@ if hasArg cugraph-dgl || buildDefault ||hasArg all; then
         python ${PYTHON_ARGS_FOR_INSTALL} ${REPODIR}/python/cugraph-dgl
     fi
 fi
-
-# Build the docs
-if hasArg docs || hasArg all; then
-    if [ ! -d ${LIBCUGRAPH_BUILD_DIR} ]; then
-        mkdir -p ${LIBCUGRAPH_BUILD_DIR}
-        cd ${LIBCUGRAPH_BUILD_DIR}
-        cmake -B "${LIBCUGRAPH_BUILD_DIR}" -S "${REPODIR}/cpp" \
-              -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_PREFIX} \
-              -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${BUILD_TYPE} \
-              ${CMAKE_GENERATOR_OPTION} \
-              ${CMAKE_VERBOSE_OPTION}
-    fi
-
-    for PROJECT in libcugraphops libwholegraph; do
-        XML_DIR="${REPODIR}/docs/cugraph/${PROJECT}"
-        rm -rf "${XML_DIR}"
-        mkdir -p "${XML_DIR}"
-        export XML_DIR_${PROJECT^^}="$XML_DIR"
-
-        echo "downloading xml for ${PROJECT} into ${XML_DIR}. Environment variable XML_DIR_${PROJECT^^} is set to ${XML_DIR}"
-        curl -O "https://d1664dvumjb44w.cloudfront.net/${PROJECT}/xml_tar/${RAPIDS_VERSION}/xml.tar.gz"
-        tar -xzf xml.tar.gz -C "${XML_DIR}"
-        rm "./xml.tar.gz"
-    done
-
-    cd ${LIBCUGRAPH_BUILD_DIR}
-    cmake --build "${LIBCUGRAPH_BUILD_DIR}" -j${PARALLEL_LEVEL} --target docs_cugraph ${VERBOSE_FLAG}
-
-    echo "making libcugraph doc dir"
-    rm -rf ${REPODIR}/docs/cugraph/libcugraph
-    mkdir -p ${REPODIR}/docs/cugraph/libcugraph
-
-    export XML_DIR_LIBCUGRAPH="${REPODIR}/cpp/doxygen/xml"
-
-    cd ${REPODIR}/docs/cugraph
-    make html
-fi
diff --git a/ci/build_wheel_pylibwholegraph.sh b/ci/build_wheel_pylibwholegraph.sh
index c9c6b59..4b3809f 100755
--- a/ci/build_wheel_pylibwholegraph.sh
+++ b/ci/build_wheel_pylibwholegraph.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 #!/bin/bash
 # Copyright (c) 2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
 
diff --git a/ci/test_wheel.sh b/ci/test_wheel.sh
index 39d2c1f..d9b6d31 100755
--- a/ci/test_wheel.sh
+++ b/ci/test_wheel.sh
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ mkdir -p ./dist
 RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX="$(rapids-wheel-ctk-name-gen ${RAPIDS_CUDA_VERSION})"
 RAPIDS_PY_WHEEL_NAME="${package_name}_${RAPIDS_PY_CUDA_SUFFIX}" rapids-download-wheels-from-s3 ./dist
 
-# use 'ls' to expand wildcard before adding `[extra]` requires for pip
-# pip creates wheels using python package names
-python -m pip install $(ls ./dist/${python_package_name}*.whl)[test]
+# echo to expand wildcard before adding `[extra]` requires for pip
+python -m pip install \
+    "$(echo ./dist/${python_package_name}*.whl)[test]"
 
 # Run smoke tests for aarch64 pull requests
 arch=$(uname -m)
diff --git a/ci/wheel_smoke_test_cugraph.py b/ci/wheel_smoke_test_cugraph.py
deleted file mode 100644
index fb88dcd..0000000
--- a/ci/wheel_smoke_test_cugraph.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2023-2024, NVIDIA CORPORATION.
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-import cudf
-import cugraph
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    edgelist = cudf.DataFrame({"source": ["a", "b", "c"], "destination": ["b", "c", "d"]})
-
-    # directed graph
-    G = cugraph.Graph(directed=True)
-    G.from_cudf_edgelist(edgelist, store_transposed=True)
-    result_df = cugraph.pagerank(G)
-
-    assert(result_df["pagerank"].sum() == 1.0)
-    assert(result_df.sort_values(by="pagerank")["vertex"].values_host.tolist()
-           == ["a", "b", "c", "d"])
-
-    # undirected graph
-    G = cugraph.Graph(directed=False)
-    G.from_cudf_edgelist(edgelist, store_transposed=True)
-    result_df = cugraph.pagerank(G)
-
-    assert(result_df["pagerank"].sum() == 1.0)
-    result_df.set_index("vertex", inplace=True)
-    assert(result_df.loc["a", "pagerank"] == result_df.loc["d", "pagerank"])
-    assert(result_df.loc["b", "pagerank"] == result_df.loc["c", "pagerank"])