diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index ff3c9dbb4..4e99a08da 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -11,9 +11,11 @@ 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 curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | sudo python3.4
-    - travis_retry sudo pip3.4 install pyicu==1.8
-    - travis_retry sudo pip3.4 install mock
+
+    - travis_retry curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py > get-pip.py
+    - sudo python3 get-pip.py
+    - travis_retry sudo pip3 install pyicu==1.8
+    - travis_retry sudo pip3 install mock
 
     - cd $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR
     # $TRAVIS_BUILD_DIR is set to the location of the cloned repository: