diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 331e9c2..ac2a870 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -23,21 +23,6 @@ before_install:
   - make install
   - cd ..
   #
-  # unittest dependencies, perl modules
-  - wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/T/TL/TLINDEN/Config-General-2.56.tar.gz
-  - tar xvzf Config-General-2.56.tar.gz
-  - mkdir -p tests/lib/Config/General
-  - cp Config-General-2.56/General.pm tests/lib/Config/
-  - cp Config-General-2.56/General/*.pm tests/lib/Config/General/
-  #
-  - wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CH/CHORNY/Tie-IxHash-1.23.tar.gz
-  - tar xvzf Tie-IxHash-1.23.tar.gz
-  - cp -r Tie-IxHash-1.23/lib/* tests/lib/
-  #
-  - wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/I/IN/INGY/YAML-1.14.tar.gz
-  - tar xvfz YAML-1.14.tar.gz
-  - cp -r YAML-1.14/lib/* tests/lib/
-  #
   # for debugging - just in case, uncomment this and the next if needed
   #- wget http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.10.1.tar.bz2
   #- tar xvjf valgrind-3.10.1.tar.bz2