diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 10e596da..0e9efae1 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -20,39 +20,17 @@ env:
   - PYTHON_VERSION=3.5
 
 before_install:
-  - export CONDA_CACHED=1
-  - if [[ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "linux" ]];
-      then export OS=Linux;
-    elif [[ "$TRAVIS_OS_NAME" == "osx" ]];
-      then export OS=MacOSX;
-      brew install pandoc;
-    else
-      echo "OS not supported yet";
-      exit 1; fi;
-  - if [[ $PYTHON_VERSION == "2.7" ]];
-      then export MINICONDA=Miniconda;
-    elif [[ $PYTHON_VERSION == 3* ]];
-      then export MINICONDA=Miniconda3;
-    else echo "Could not find python version";exit 1; fi;
-  - if [ ! -d $HOME/download/ ]; then mkdir $HOME/download/; fi;
-  - if [ ! -d $HOME/install/ ]; then mkdir $HOME/install/; fi;
-  - export MINICONDA_FILE=$MINICONDA-latest-$OS-x86_64-$PYTHON_VERSION
-  - export MINCONDA_CACHE_FILE=$HOME/download/$MINICONDA_FILE.sh
-  - export MINICONDA_INSTALL=$HOME/install/$MINICONDA_FILE
-  - if [ ! -f $MINCONDA_CACHE_FILE ]; then export CONDA_CACHED=0; wget http://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/$MINICONDA-latest-$OS-x86_64.sh -O $MINCONDA_CACHE_FILE; bash $MINCONDA_CACHE_FILE -b -p $MINICONDA_INSTALL; fi;
-  - export PATH="$MINICONDA_INSTALL/bin:$PATH";
+- wget https://github.com/mzwiessele/travis_scripts/raw/master/download_miniconda.sh
+- wget https://github.com/mzwiessele/travis_scripts/raw/master/install_retry.sh
+- source download_miniconda.sh
+- echo $PATH
 
 install:
-  - n=0
-    until [ $n -ge 5 ]
-    do # Retry 5 times, as weird 404 errors seem to popup...
-      conda install --yes python=$PYTHON_VERSION numpy=1.9 scipy=0.16 nose pip six matplotlib sphinx && break
-      n=$[$n+1]
-      sleep 15
-    done
-  - pip install codecov
-  - pip install pypandoc
-  - python setup.py develop
+- echo $PATH
+- source install_retry.sh
+- pip install codecov
+- pip install pypandoc
+- python setup.py develop
 
 script:
   - coverage run travis_tests.py