diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 514ab1ddf..73cd1f1b9 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ script:
 before_install:
   # gem install must be run with sudo on OSX
   - sudo gem install asciidoctor | gem install asciidoctor
-  - sudo pip install docutils
+  - sudo apt-get install python-docutils | sudo pip install docutils