updated gitlab-ci to install requirements before building the documentation....

I believe the problem with autodoc constructing the documentation was caused by missing dependencies. This merge request install all pyicon dependencies before attempting to build the documentation.

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Had a go at building the documentation in an empty environment using docker. This pull request as isn't ready and needs some refinement.

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• 12f868b4 - attempt to fix documentation build problems

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• 81923634 - build on devel branch

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• f1b0b098 - try conda

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• 563078ed - updated env activation

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• 524e8efd - install make

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This fixes the problem with the documentation not building properly. The documentation is now built by a gitlab runner with conda available. Conda installs any dependencies then makes the documentation. I have verified the documentation builds using the conda runner on my source branch. I presume the documentation will still be automatically published, though I've been unable to test this. The documentation now takes around 5 minutes to build rather than 1 minute due to the dependency installation.

Hi Fraser, thank you! I am wondering if we have to live with the 5min but for the moment, I think we should.

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