diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8e387139a..3a3842d57 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ install:
   - sudo apt-get -qq update
   - sudo apt-get -qq install libssl-dev pkg-config libhunspell-dev
   - if [[ "$QT" == "qt4" ]]; then sudo apt-get -qq install libqt4-dev libqt4-webkit libqt4-sql-sqlite; fi
-  - if [[ "$QT" == "qt5" ]]; then sudo apt-get -qq install libqt5-dev; fi
+  - if [[ "$QT" == "qt5" ]]; then sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:beineri/opt-qt511; sudo apt-get update -qq; sudo apt-get install -qq qt51base qt51webkit qt51tools; fi
 
 script:
-  - if [[ "$QT" == "qt5" ]]; then alias qmake=`qtchooser -qt=qt5 -run-tool=qmake --help | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2`; fi
-  - qmake
-  - make
-  - cd scripts && source run_tests.sh
+  - QMAKE="qmake"
+  - if [[ "$QT" == "qt5" ]]; then QMAKE="/opt/qt51/bin/qmake"; fi
+  - $QMAKE
+  - cd scripts && ./run_tests.sh $QMAKE
diff --git a/scripts/run_tests.sh b/scripts/run_tests.sh
index 24d009057..c02e57448 100755
--- a/scripts/run_tests.sh
+++ b/scripts/run_tests.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # run_tests.sh
 
+QMAKE="qmake"
+
+if [ -n "$1" ]; then
+ QMAKE=$1
+fi
+
 cd ../tests/autotests
-(qmake DEFINES+=NO_SYSTEM_DATAPATH && make) || exit 1
+($QMAKE DEFINES+=NO_SYSTEM_DATAPATH && make) || exit 1
 cd ../../bin
 
 ./autotests