diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 7b5ea17f1..5badde05c 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -12,13 +12,15 @@ install:
     - travis_retry sudo apt-get install python3-gobject python3-gi python3-cairo python3-gi-cairo python3-bsddb3 python3-dev python3-nose 
 
     - sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
-    - sudo easy_install3 pip
+    # - sudo easy_install3 pip
 
     # - travis_retry curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py > get-pip.py
     # - sudo python3 get-pip.py
 
     - travis_retry sudo pip install pyicu==1.8
-    - travis_retry sudo pip install mock
+
+    # - travis_retry sudo pip install mock
+    - sudo easy_install3 mock
 
     - cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR
     # $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR is set to the location of the cloned repository: