diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 91cda2fc..550e42b5 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -26,21 +26,21 @@ matrix:
       env:
         - BUILD_TYPE="Debug"
 
-    - name: "Ubuntu 18.04 - gcc (Release)"
-      os: linux
-      dist: bionic
-      sudo: required
-      compiler: gcc
-      env:
-        - BUILD_TYPE="Release"
-
-    - name: "Ubuntu 18.04 - gcc (Debug)"
-      os: linux
-      dist: bionic
-      sudo: required
-      compiler: gcc
-      env:
-        - BUILD_TYPE="Debug"
+#      - name: "Ubuntu 18.04 - gcc (Release)"
+#        os: linux
+#        dist: bionic
+#        sudo: required
+#        compiler: gcc
+#        env:
+#          - BUILD_TYPE="Release"
+#  
+#      - name: "Ubuntu 18.04 - gcc (Debug)"
+#        os: linux
+#        dist: bionic
+#        sudo: required
+#        compiler: gcc
+#        env:
+#          - BUILD_TYPE="Debug"
 
     - name: "Ubuntu 20.04 - gcc (Release)"
       os: linux
diff --git a/ci/install.sh b/ci/install.sh
index 874675df..6d520d27 100755
--- a/ci/install.sh
+++ b/ci/install.sh
@@ -4,29 +4,38 @@ set -x # Prints every command
 
 # This file is only used from Travis CI, where the only Linux distro used is Ubuntu
 
-pip=pip3
+python --version
+python3 --version
+
 if [[ "$(uname -s)" == 'Linux' ]]; then
-    sudo apt  update     --yes
-    sudo apt  install    --yes cmake
-    sudo apt  install    --yes zlib1g-dev libssh-dev python3-pip libxml2-utils
-    if [ -n "$WITH_VALGRIND" ]; then
-        sudo apt install --yes valgrind
+    sudo apt-get update
+
+    sudo apt-get install cmake
+    if [[ "$(lsb_release -cs)" == 'focal' ]]; then
+        # In Ubuntu 20.04 python-pip does not exist. Furthermore we need to have the alias python for python3
+        sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libssh-dev python3-pip python-is-python3 libxml2-utils
+    else
+        sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libssh-dev python-pip libxml2-utils
     fi
-    sudo apt  autoremove --yes
+
     if [ -n "$WITH_VALGRIND" ]; then
         sudo apt-get install valgrind
     fi
-    pip=pip
+    sudo pip install virtualenv
+    virtualenv conan
+    source conan/bin/activate
+    pip install conan==1.30.2
+    pip install codecov
+    pip install lxml
+else
+    sudo pip3 install virtualenv
+    virtualenv conan
+    source conan/bin/activate
+    pip3 install conan==1.30.2
+    pip3 install codecov
+    pip3 install lxml
 fi
 
-sudo $pip install virtualenv
-virtualenv conan
-source conan/bin/activate
-$pip3 install conan==1.30.2
-$pip3 install codecov
-$pip3 install lxml
-
-python3 --version
 conan --version
 conan config set storage.path=~/conanData
 conan profile new default --detect
@@ -34,3 +43,4 @@ conan profile new default --detect
 if [[ "$(uname -s)" == 'Linux' ]]; then
     conan profile update settings.compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11 default
 fi
+