diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9d2143ac2..4304fd1c5 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ install:
     - 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
-    - travis_retry sudo apt-get install python3-icu
+    # - travis_retry sudo apt-get install python3-icu
 
     # - travis_retry sudo pip install pyicu==1.8