diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 4902ff71..a8c38e5f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ cache:
   - build
 
 before_install:
+  - sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa
+  - sudo apt-get update -qq
+  - sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev libqt5webkit5-dev libsqlite3-dev
+  - sudo apt-get install qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools
   - sh scripts/prepare_travis.sh
 
 notifications:
diff --git a/scripts/prepare_travis.sh b/scripts/prepare_travis.sh
index 65fa73b4..cdc9ce1d 100755
--- a/scripts/prepare_travis.sh
+++ b/scripts/prepare_travis.sh
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ then
     wget --quiet --output-document=pyqt.tar.gz "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/pyqt/PyQt5/PyQt-${PYQT}/PyQt-gpl-${PYQT}.tar.gz"
     tar -xf pyqt.tar.gz
     cd "PyQt-gpl-${PYQT}"
-    python -B configure.py --confirm-license --qmake=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/bin/qmake
+    python -B configure.py --confirm-license 
     make
     cd ..
 fi