diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9bdb6527d..de910b93f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ install:
     - travis_retry sudo apt-get install python3-gobject python3-gi python3-cairo python3-gi-cairo python3-bsddb3 python3-dev python3-nose
 
     - travis_retry curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python3
-    - travis_retry pip3 install django
-    - travis_retry pip3 install pyicu
+    - travis_retry sudo pip3 install django
+    - travis_retry sudo pip3 install pyicu
     - python setup.py build
 
 script: