diff --git a/doc/getstarted/build_and_install/build_from_source.md b/doc/getstarted/build_and_install/build_from_source.md
index b932fbc0fa4443d2fd8abfc9d8a78e68c44f667c..a2a96f6f48369bf80c8f7b5040121fd7dba5a77b 100644
--- a/doc/getstarted/build_and_install/build_from_source.md
+++ b/doc/getstarted/build_and_install/build_from_source.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ You can download PaddlePaddle from the [github source](https://github.com/Paddle
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle paddle
 cd paddle
+git submodule update --init --recursive
 ```
 
 ## <span id="requirements">Requirements</span>
diff --git a/doc/getstarted/build_and_install/docker_install.rst b/doc/getstarted/build_and_install/docker_install.rst
index 5abb3b9a3f201c6258d712f848d865bb3be4d514..1ab6fc6a728f68b16d798a577da2896481eb17d1 100644
--- a/doc/getstarted/build_and_install/docker_install.rst
+++ b/doc/getstarted/build_and_install/docker_install.rst
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ source code:
    cd ~
    git clone github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle
    cd Paddle
+   git submodule update --init --recursive
    docker build --build-arg WITH_AVX=OFF -t paddle:cpu-noavx -f paddle/scripts/docker/Dockerfile .
    docker build --build-arg WITH_AVX=OFF -t paddle:gpu-noavx -f paddle/scripts/docker/Dockerfile.gpu .
 
diff --git a/doc/howto/contribute_to_paddle.md b/doc/howto/contribute_to_paddle.md
index d1f12c6ab2fb9ddeed40b53c1b2c68a9ccb19105..1decc91d62cc25c5b3157bdc6e0835421be23252 100644
--- a/doc/howto/contribute_to_paddle.md
+++ b/doc/howto/contribute_to_paddle.md
@@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ If your repository doesn't contain **develop** branch, just create it by your ow
 git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/Paddle.git Paddle
 cd Paddle
 git checkout -b develop  # create develop branch.
-git remote add upstream https://github.com/baidu/Paddle.git  # add upstream to baidu/Paddle
+git remote add upstream https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle.git  # add upstream to baidu/Paddle
 git pull upstream develop  # update to upstream
+git submodule update --init --recursive
 ```
 
 Then you can start to develop by making a local developement branch
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ To do this, you'll need to add a remote at first:
 # see the current configured remote repository
 git remote -v
 # add upstream repository
-git remote add upstream https://github.com/baidu/Paddle.git
+git remote add upstream https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle.git
 # verify the new upstream
 git remote -v
 ```