diff --git a/.travis.mk b/.travis.mk
index e3bf28c531ab17e185337f38c1919fc469a2648d..6d0c42207cd9ade5fc71abd204d3b3ad941afa03 100644
--- a/.travis.mk
+++ b/.travis.mk
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ test_ubuntu: deps_ubuntu
 
 deps_osx:
 	brew update
-	brew install python2 openssl readline curl icu4c --force
+	brew install openssl readline curl icu4c --force
+	python2 -V || brew install python2 --force
 	curl --silent --show-error --retry 5 https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python
 	pip install -r test-run/requirements.txt