diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 59d85960..59d8c3a2 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ before_install:
       libcunit1-dev
       libssl-dev
       libxml2-dev
+      libev-dev
       libevent-dev
       libjansson-dev
       libjemalloc-dev