diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index deb59670938..817c0b921f8 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ before_install:
       - sudo apt-get update -qq
 install:
       # Have an uptodate libc6
+      - sudo apt-get install -qq g++-4.8
       - sudo apt-get install -qq libc6-dev
       - sudo apt-get install -qq cmake libsndfile1-dev libasound2-dev libjack-dev portaudio19-dev libportmidi-dev libpulse-dev swig liblua5.1-0-dev python-dev puredata-dev default-jdk libfltk1.1-dev libfluidsynth-dev liblo-dev fluid ladspa-sdk libboost-dev libboost-serialization-dev libpng-dev dssi-dev libstk0-dev libgmm++-dev bison flex libportsmf-dev libeigen3-dev libcunit1-dev python-tk
 before_script: