diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 17f38c1..2008903 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ script:
 after_success:
   - "coveralls"
 before_deploy:
+  - "sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:marutter/c2d4u"  # to get newer pandoc
+  - "sudo apt-get -q update"
   - "sudo apt-get -yV install pandoc"
   - "pip install pypandoc"
 deploy: