diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index cd874ce06a..b3415fa8a3 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ node_js:
   - '4.3.1'
 before_install:
   - npm install -g npm@3
+  - npm install -g grunt-cli
   - if [ $REQUIRES_SERVER ]; then sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10; echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install mongodb-org-server; fi
 before_script:
   - npm run test:build