diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3ee7a7887..9d2143ac2 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -10,17 +10,10 @@ 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 
-
-    - sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
-    # - 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 apt-get install python3-mock
-    # - sudo easy_install3 mock
+    - travis_retry sudo apt-get install python3-icu
+
+    # - travis_retry sudo pip install pyicu==1.8
 
     - cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR
     # $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR is set to the location of the cloned repository:
@@ -35,4 +28,4 @@ script:
     -  mkdir -p ~/.gramps/grampsdb/
     # --exclude=TestUser because of older version of mock
     #                    without configure_mock
-    -  nosetests3 --exclude=TestcaseGenerator --exclude=vcard --exclude=merge_ref_test  --exclude=TestUser gramps
+    -  nosetests3 --exclude=TestcaseGenerator --exclude=vcard --exclude=merge_ref_test  --exclude=user_test gramps