diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index bc83b7c62..b0b62d186 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ addons:
     - libglib2.0-dev
     - libxml2-dev
     - uuid-dev
+    - gcc-7-base=7.3.0-21ubuntu1
 
 branches:
   only: