diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 28a1aa96..f977488e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -3,14 +3,15 @@ language: perl
 install:
   - sudo apt-get update
   - sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install devscripts python ruby php5-cli gawk
-  - sudo apt-get install libdb-dev libvirt-dev libexpat-dev
-  #
+  - sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install pkg-config libdb-dev libvirt-dev libexpat-dev
+
   # Modules used by test script
   - cpanm --notest Test::More File::Find Capture::Tiny
   #
   # Modules used by plugins
   - cpanm --notest Asterisk::AMI Cache::Memcached BerkeleyDB DBD::Pg Data::Dump Device::SerialPort FCGI::Client File::ReadBackwards File::Tail::Multi Graphics::ColorNames IPC::Run3 IPC::ShareLite Modern::Perl MooseX::POE Net::Telnet Net::Telnet::Cisco POE Proc::ProcessTable Redis WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder nvidia::ml
-  - cpanm --notest DANBERR/Sys-Virt-1.2.2.tar.gz
+  # - Sys::Virt version matching the test system's libvirt-dev
+  - cpanm --notest DANBERR/Sys-Virt-0.9.8.tar.gz
   # Modules used by plugins, but missing on cpan
   # - Sun::Solaris::Kstat
   # - VMware::VIRuntime