diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index a8e61c0f..a7338f9f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ env:
   - PATH="${PATH}:${HOME}/gsutil"
 
 install:
-  - curl --silent --location https://storage.googleapis.com/pub/gsutil.tar.gz | tar x -C $HOME
+  - curl --silent --location https://storage.googleapis.com/pub/gsutil.tar.gz | tar xz -C $HOME
   - bin/setup-ci-secrets $encrypted_5ba036e89377_key $encrypted_5ba036e89377_iv
 
 script: