diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index a2786b58b..7c3f7bf8b 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-sudo: false
+sudo: required
 language: python
 env:
   - DJ_TEST_HOST="127.0.0.1" DJ_TEST_USER="root" DJ_TEST_PASSWORD="" DJ_HOST="127.0.0.1" DJ_USER="root" DJ_PASSWORD=""
@@ -6,12 +6,11 @@ python:
   - "3.4"
   - "3.5"
 services: mysql
-addons:
-  apt:
-    packages:
-      - libblas-dev
+before_install:
+  - sudo apt-get -qq update
+  - sudo apt-get install -y libblas-dev liblapack-dev libatlas-dev gfortran
 install:
-  - pip install -r requirements.txt
+  - travis_wait 30 pip install -r requirements.txt
   - pip install nose nose-cov python-coveralls
 # command to run tests
 script:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index af4d48f13..33feb612b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 numpy
+scipy
 pymysql
 pyparsing
 networkx