diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index bd7445232..dc6283849 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ before_install:
       eval "$(pyenv init -)";
       PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--enable-framework" pyenv install --skip-existing --keep --verbose "$PYTHON_VER";
       pyenv shell "$PYTHON_VER";
-      pip install wheel;
     fi
   - which python
   - which pip
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a3392f727..d89c01af1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ binaryornot==0.4.4
 jsonpath-rw==1.4.0
 reflink==0.2.0
 requests>=2.18.4
+wheel>=0.31.1