diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index b228937f..e09e3efe 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ before_install:
   - sudo apt-get install -qq automake gobject-introspection gtk-doc-tools libfftw3-dev libglib2.0-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libpng12-dev libwebp-dev libtiff4-dev libxml2-dev swig libmagick++-dev bc libgsf-1-dev libcfitsio3-dev libgsl0-dev libmatio-dev
   - sudo apt-get install -qq liborc-0.4-dev
   - sudo apt-get install -qq python-dev python3-dev 
-  - sudo apt-get install -qq libpython3-dev libpython2-dev
   - sudo apt-get install -qq python-gi-dev python3-gi
 before_script:
   - ./bootstrap.sh