diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9bf1f651f..5fd28cfdf 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ env:
 before_install:
   - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y
   - sudo apt-get -qq update
-  - sudo apt-get install gcc-6.2 g++-6.2
-  - sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-6.2 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-6.2
+  - sudo apt-get install gcc-6 g++-6
+  - sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-6 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-6
   - sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake curl git libbz2-dev libcanberra-gtk3-dev libexiv2-dev libexpat-dev libfftw3-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev libgtk-3-dev libgtkmm-3.0-dev libiptcdata0-dev libjpeg8-dev liblcms2-dev libpng12-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libtiff5-dev zlib1g-dev
 
 before_script: