diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9fbab3b..0ed6dee 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -12,12 +12,10 @@ before_install:
     - sudo rm -rf /dev/shm && sudo ln -s /run/shm /dev/shm
     # Pierre Carrier's PPA for PhantomJS and CasperJS
     - time sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:pcarrier/ppa
-    - time sudo apt-get update
-    - time sudo apt-get install casperjs libzmq3-dev
     # Needed to get recent version of pandoc in ubntu 12.04
-    - time sudo apt-get install haskell-platform
-    - time cabal update
-    - time cabal install pandoc==1.12.1
+    - time sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:marutter/c2d4u
+    - time sudo apt-get update
+    - time sudo apt-get install pandoc casperjs libzmq3-dev
     # pin tornado < 4 for js tests while phantom is on super old webkit
     - if [[ $GROUP == 'js' ]]; then pip install 'tornado<4'; fi
     - time pip install -f https://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/wheelhouse/travis jinja2 sphinx pygments tornado requests!=2.4.2 mock pyzmq jsonschema jsonpointer mistune