diff --git a/.travis/linux_before_install.sh b/.travis/linux_before_install.sh
index af1a5178..8cd709be 100644
--- a/.travis/linux_before_install.sh
+++ b/.travis/linux_before_install.sh
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
 # Replace tesseract data installed by tesseract-ocr-eng with a known good version
 sudo apt-get install -y wget
 wget -q https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best/raw/master/eng.traineddata -O packages/eng.traineddata
-cp packages/eng.traineddata /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata/eng.traineddata
+sudo cp packages/eng.traineddata /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata/eng.traineddata
 
 pip install --upgrade pip
 mkdir -p packages