diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 006f358c3..358b69fce 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@
 # Usually you shouldn't need to change the first part of the file
 
 # DO NOT CHANGE THE CODE BELOW
-before_install: R -q -e 'install.packages("remotes"); remotes::install_github("ropenscilabs/tic"); tic::prepare_all_stages(); tic::before_install()'
+before_install:
+- R -q -e 'install.packages("remotes"); remotes::install_github("ropenscilabs/tic"); tic::prepare_all_stages(); tic::before_install()'
+-
+- sudo apt-get -qq update && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends texlive-full
 install: R -q -e 'tic::install()'
 after_install: R -q -e 'tic::after_install()'
 before_script: R -q -e 'tic::before_script()'
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 5b630c057..508c984d3 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ Imports:
   htmltools,
   bookdown,
   purrr,
-  humaniformat,
-  tinytex
+  humaniformat
 Remotes: 
   bergant/airtabler,
   rstudio/htmltools,
diff --git a/tic.R b/tic.R
index 238306c28..71fb91635 100644
--- a/tic.R
+++ b/tic.R
@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@ get_stage("deploy") %>%
   add_code_step(
     file.copy(from = "pdfbook/ropensci-dev-guide.pdf",
               to = "_book/ropensci-dev-guide.pdf")
-  ) %>%
-  add_code_step(
-    tinytex::install_tinytex()
   )
 
 if (Sys.getenv("id_rsa") != "") {