diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 21c051b69..f11cf55ab 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -59,13 +59,13 @@ before_install:
     fi'
   - 'if [[ $TRAVIS_OS_NAME == "osx" && "$python" == "1" ]]; then travis_retry brew install boost-python; fi'
   - 'if [ "$docs" = "1" ]; then
-    travis_retry brew install docutils;
+    easy_install --user docutils;
     mkdir -p /Users/travis/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages;
     echo ''import site; site.addsitedir("/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages")'' >> /Users/travis/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/homebrew.pth;
     easy_install --user Pygments;
     easy_install --user aafigure;
     travis_retry brew install graphviz;
-    travis_retry brew install Homebrew/python/pillow;
+    easy_install --user Pillow;
     fi'
 
   - if [ "$coverage" == "1" ]; then
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ install:
        <linkflags>-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib
        <cxxflags>-std=c++11 ;" >> ~/user-config.jam'
   - 'echo "using python : 2.7 ;" >> ~/user-config.jam'
-  - if [ "$docs" == "1" ]; then rst2html.py --version; fi
+  - if [ "$docs" == "1" ]; then /Users/travis/Library/Python/2.7/bin/rst2html.py --version; fi
   - 'if [ "$lint" == "1" ]; then curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/styleguide/71ec7f1e524969c19ce33cfc72e8e023f2b98ee2/cpplint/cpplint.py" >~/cpplint.py; fi'
 
   - ccache -V
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ script:
 
   - cd docs
   - 'if [ "$docs" == "1" ]; then
-      make RST2HTML=rst2html.py AAFIGURE=echo;
+      make RST2HTML=/Users/travis/Library/Python/2.7/bin/rst2html.py AAFIGURE=echo;
     fi'
   - cd ..