diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 1af34efc718..6689dea82c2 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ addons:
     sources:
     - ubuntu-toolchain-r-test
     packages:
-    - pkg-config netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev openmpi-bin libopenmpi-dev gfortran
+    - pkg-config openmpi-bin libopenmpi-dev gfortran zlib1g-dev
 
 before_install:
   - test -n $CC && unset CC
@@ -23,12 +23,25 @@ before_script:
   - export CC=mpicc
   - export FC=mpif90
   - export CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/include'
+  - wget https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.10/hdf5-1.10.5/src/hdf5-1.10.5.tar.gz
+  - tar -xzvf hdf5-1.10.5.tar.gz
+  - pushd hdf5-1.10.5
+  - ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-parallel
+  - make
+  - sudo make install
+  - popd
+  - wget https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/archive/v4.6.3.tar.gz
+  - tar -xzvf v4.6.3.tar.gz
+  - pushd netcdf-c-4.6.3
+  - ./configure --prefix=/usr
+  - make
+  - sudo make install
+  - popd
   - wget https://parallel-netcdf.github.io/Release/pnetcdf-1.11.0.tar.gz 
   - tar -xzvf pnetcdf-1.11.0.tar.gz
-  - ls -l
   - pushd pnetcdf-1.11.0
   - ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared
-  - make
+  - make 
   - sudo make install
   - popd
 env: