diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 850ecbe0..2d03faec 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ install:
     - sudo apt-get install python-dev python3-dev libopenjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libtiff4-dev libjpeg8-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev python-tk
     - if [[ $PYMONGO == 'dev' ]]; then travis_retry pip install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/tarball/master; true; fi
     - if [[ $PYMONGO != 'dev' ]]; then travis_retry pip install pymongo==$PYMONGO; true; fi
-    - if [[ $DJANGO == 'dev' ]]; then travis_retry https://github.com/django/django/tarball/master; fi
+    - if [[ $DJANGO == 'dev' ]]; then travis_retry pip install git+https://github.com/django/django.git; fi
     - if [[ $DJANGO != 'dev' ]]; then travis_retry pip install Django==$DJANGO; fi
     - travis_retry pip install https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/python-dateutil/python-dateutil-2.1.tar.gz#md5=1534bb15cf311f07afaa3aacba1c028b
     - travis_retry pip install coveralls