diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 095c04568..a2077b7b2 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ install:
     - travis_retry pip install pylast flask
     # unittest backport on Python < 2.7
     - "[[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == '2.6' ]] && pip install unittest2 || true"
+    - sudo apt-get update
+    - sudo apt-get install -qq bash-completion
 
 script: nosetests --with-coverage --cover-package=beets