diff --git a/travis/build_env.sh b/travis/build_env.sh
index 356064d3e4..1cbb873044 100755
--- a/travis/build_env.sh
+++ b/travis/build_env.sh
@@ -13,5 +13,7 @@ if [[ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "linux" ]]; then
     if [[ "$MPI_IMPL" == "mpich" ]]; then
         mpi_bin="mpich" ; mpi_libdev="libmpich-dev"
     fi
-    sudo apt-get -y install python-dev  cmake "$mpi_libdev" "$mpi_bin" tcsh make perl subversion 
+    cat /etc/apt/sources.list
+    sudo add-apt-repository universe && sudo apt update
+    sudo apt-get -y install gfortran python-dev  cmake "$mpi_libdev" "$mpi_bin" tcsh make perl subversion 
 fi