diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index bdbbc2c781..a92e4b8468 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ language: node_js
 node_js:
   - '0.10'
 before_install:
+  - "npm install -g npm@2"
   - "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"
@@ -12,4 +13,4 @@ before_script:
   - "until nc -z localhost 27017; do echo Waiting for MongoDB; sleep 1; done"
   - "export DISPLAY=:99"
 after_script:
-  - "./node_modules/.bin/lcov-result-merger 'coverage/**/*.info' | ./node_modules/coveralls/bin/coveralls.js"
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+  - "./node_modules/.bin/lcov-result-merger 'coverage/**/*.info' | ./node_modules/coveralls/bin/coveralls.js"