diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index dc53579d..02490507 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,34 +1,32 @@
 # vim ft=yaml
 # travis-ci.org definition for skimage build
-#
-# We pretend to be erlang because we can't use the python support in
-# travis-ci; it uses virtualenvs, they do not have numpy, scipy, matplotlib,
-# and it is impractical to build them
 
-language: erlang
-env:
-    - PYTHON=python PYSUF='' PYVER=2.7
-    - PYTHON=python3 PYSUF='3' PYVER=3.2
+language: python
+python:
+    - "2.7"
+    - "3.2"
+virtualenv:
+    system_site_packages: true
 before_install:
     - "export DISPLAY=:99.0"
     - "sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start"
-install:
-    - sudo apt-get update  # needed for python3-numpy
+    - if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == '2.7' ]]; then export PYTHON=python; fi
+    - if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == '3.2' ]]; then export PYTHON=python3; fi
+    - sudo apt-get update
     - sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-dev
     - sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-numpy
     - sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-scipy
-    - sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-setuptools
-    - sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-nose
-    - if [[ $PYVER == '2.7' ]]; then sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-qt4; fi
-    - if [[ $PYVER == '3.2' ]]; then sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-pyqt4; fi
+    - sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-pip
     - sudo apt-get install libfreeimage3
-    - sudo easy_install$PYSUF pip
-    - if [[ $PYVER == '2.7' ]]; then sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-matplotlib; fi
-    - if [[ $PYVER == '3.2' ]]; then sudo pip-$PYVER install git+git://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git@v1.2.x; fi
-    - sudo pip-$PYVER install cython
-    - sudo pip-$PYVER install flake8
-    - sudo pip-$PYVER install six
-    - $PYTHON setup.py build_ext --inplace
+    - if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == '2.7' ]]; then sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-qt4; fi
+    - if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == '3.2' ]]; then sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-pyqt4; fi
+    - if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == '2.7' ]]; then sudo apt-get install $PYTHON-matplotlib; fi
+    - if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == '3.2' ]]; then sudo pip install git+git://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git@v1.2.x; fi
+    - sudo pip install cython
+    - sudo pip install flake8
+    - sudo pip install six
+install:
+    - python setup.py build_ext --inplace
 script:
     # Check if setup.py's match bento.info
     - $PYTHON check_bento_build.py
@@ -37,7 +35,7 @@ script:
     - "echo 'backend : Agg' > $HOME/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc"
     - "echo 'backend.qt4 : PyQt4' >> $HOME/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc"
     # Run all tests
-    - nosetests-$PYVER --exe -v --with-doctest --ignore-files='^\.' --ignore-files='^setup\.py$$' --ignore-files='^_test' skimage
+    - nosetests --exe -v --with-doctest --ignore-files='^\.' --ignore-files='^setup\.py$$' --ignore-files='^_test' skimage
     # Run all doc examples
     - export PYTHONPATH=$(pwd):$PYTHONPATH
     - for f in doc/examples/*.py; do $PYTHON "$f"; if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then exit 1; fi done