diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 08b0bf119..a201f97b1 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ install:
         virtualenv --python="$PYPY_VERSION/bin/pypy3" "$HOME/virtualenvs/$PYPY_VERSION"
         source "$HOME/virtualenvs/$PYPY_VERSION/bin/activate"
       fi
+      if [ "$TOXENV" = "jessie" ]; then
+        # Not used directly but allows boto GCE plugins to load.
+        # https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages/issues/262
+        pip install google-compute-engine
+      fi
   - pip install -U tox twine wheel codecov
 
 script: tox