diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index b15096b43..c03170148 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
-sudo: required
 language: python
 
 python:
   - "2.7"
 
+addons:
+  apt:
+    packages:
+      - expect-dev  # provides unbuffer utility
+      - python-lxml  # because pip installation is slow
+
 env:
   - VERSION="8.0" LINT_CHECK="1"
   - VERSION="8.0" ODOO_REPO="odoo/odoo" LINT_CHECK="0"
@@ -15,7 +20,7 @@ virtualenv:
 install:
   - git clone https://github.com/OCA/maintainer-quality-tools.git ${HOME}/maintainer-quality-tools
   - export PATH=${HOME}/maintainer-quality-tools/travis:${PATH}
-  - sudo pip install unidecode
+  - pip install unidecode
   - travis_install_nightly
 
 script: