diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 5ec7d75ec..361d1bf1a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ language: c #NOTE: this will set CC=gcc which might cause trouble
 before_script:
   - "sudo apt-get -qq update"
   ## Install these mainline toolchains for all build types
-  - "sudo apt-get -qq install gcc-msp430 || true"
+  - "sudo apt-get -qq install lib32z1 || true"
+  - "curl -s \
+       http://adamdunkels.github.io/contiki-fork/mspgcc-4.7.0-compiled.tar.bz2 \
+         | tar xjf - -C /tmp/ && sudo cp -f -r /tmp/msp430/* /usr/local/ && rm -rf /tmp/msp430 && msp430-gcc --version || true"
   - "sudo apt-get -qq install gcc-avr avr-libc || true"
   - "sudo apt-get -qq install srecord || true"
   - "sudo apt-get -qq install libc6:i386 libgcc1:i386 gcc-4.6-base:i386 libstdc++5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 || true"