diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9a7db5fd5d5756393f230f2e9346298658783018..c9c58c34d57227df5652083a1f2abf6fcc28fc43 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ env:
   - CASE=GUI CMAKE_ARGS="-DOGS_BUILD_GUI=ON -DVTK_DIR=/home/travis/build/ufz/ogs/VTK-Install/lib/cmake/vtk-6.1/"
 before_install:
   - travis_retry sudo apt-get update; travis_retry sudo apt-get install libeigen3-dev
-  - if [[ "$CC" =~ "gcc" ]]; then travis_retry sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-date-time-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-system-dev; fi
+
+  # Boost
+  - travis_retry sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:boost-latest
+  - travis_retry sudo apt-get install libboost1.55-dev libboost-date-time1.55-dev libboost-filesystem1.55-dev libboost-program-options1.55-dev libboost-system1.55-dev
+
   - "wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cmake/2.8.8-2ubuntu1/+build/3441442/+files/cmake_2.8.8-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb"
   - "wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/cmake-data_2.8.8-2ubuntu1_all.deb"
   - "sudo apt-get remove cmake-data cmake"