diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 51433c0d6..1cdee59f0 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ install:
     - time sudo apt-get update
     - travis_retry sudo apt-get install gir1.2-pango gir1.2-gtk xdg-utils librsvg2-common libglib2.0-dev intltool
     - travis_retry sudo apt-get install python3-gobject python3-gi python3-cairo python3-gi-cairo python3-bsddb3 python3-dev python3-nose 
-    - travis_retry sudo apt-get install python3-mock python3-pillow python3-pip python3-coverage
-    - travis_retry sudo pip3 install --upgrade coverage codecov
+    - travis_retry sudo apt-get install python3-mock 
+    - travis_retry sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
+    - sudo python3 get-pip.py
+    - travis_retry sudo pip3 install --upgrade coverage codecov pillow
 
     # - travis_retry sudo apt-get install python3-icu