diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 66ae6064..63017e49 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ notifications:
 # uncomment the following lines to override the default test script
 script:
  - if [[ -a .git/shallow ]]; then git fetch --unshallow; fi
- - julia -e 'Pkg.clone(pwd()); Pkg.build("Plots")'
+ - julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add(pwd()); Pkg.build("Plots")'
  - julia test/travis_commands.jl
  # - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("ImageMagick"); Pkg.build("ImageMagick")'
  # - julia -e 'Pkg.clone("GR"); Pkg.build("GR")'
diff --git a/test/REQUIRE b/test/REQUIRE
index 09681156..a7b6c784 100644
--- a/test/REQUIRE
+++ b/test/REQUIRE
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ GR 0.31.0
 RDatasets
 VisualRegressionTests
 UnicodePlots
+Test
diff --git a/test/imgcomp.jl b/test/imgcomp.jl
index 625d6d77..11656dc6 100644
--- a/test/imgcomp.jl
+++ b/test/imgcomp.jl
@@ -6,16 +6,16 @@ import DataFrames, RDatasets
 
 # don't let pyplot use a gui... it'll crash
 # note: Agg will set gui -> :none in PyPlot
-ENV["MPLBACKEND"] = "Agg"
-try
-  @eval import PyPlot
-  info("Matplotlib version: $(PyPlot.matplotlib[:__version__])")
-end
+# ENV["MPLBACKEND"] = "Agg"
+# try
+#   @eval import PyPlot
+#   info("Matplotlib version: $(PyPlot.matplotlib[:__version__])")
+# end
 
 
 using Plots
 using StatPlots
-using Base.Test
+using Test
 
 default(size=(500,300))
 
diff --git a/test/travis_commands.jl b/test/travis_commands.jl
index a283d780..ca8a07a4 100644
--- a/test/travis_commands.jl
+++ b/test/travis_commands.jl
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
+using Pkg
+
 Pkg.add("ImageMagick")
 Pkg.build("ImageMagick")
 
 # Pkg.clone("GR")
 # Pkg.build("GR")
 
-Pkg.clone("https://github.com/JuliaPlots/PlotReferenceImages.jl.git")
+Pkg.add("https://github.com/JuliaPlots/PlotReferenceImages.jl.git")
 
 # Pkg.clone("https://github.com/JuliaStats/KernelDensity.jl.git")
 
-Pkg.clone("StatPlots")
-# Pkg.checkout("PlotUtils")
+Pkg.add("StatPlots")
+Pkg.checkout("PlotUtils")
+Pkg.checkout("RecipesBase")
 
 # Pkg.clone("Blink")
 # Pkg.build("Blink")
@@ -22,9 +25,9 @@ Pkg.clone("StatPlots")
 # Pkg.clone("VisualRegressionTests")
 
 # need this to use Conda
-ENV["PYTHON"] = ""
-Pkg.add("PyPlot")
-Pkg.build("PyPlot")
+# ENV["PYTHON"] = ""
+# Pkg.add("PyPlot")
+# Pkg.build("PyPlot")
 
 # Pkg.add("InspectDR")