diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 259325ae8fa888bb02bbee6d7dbcc3316ae982a3..0a6917f2dbb3363663ed0f09ed0ee3cb7db54f1e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ before_install:
     - git clone --branch master --depth 1 https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-test.git
     - git clone --branch master --depth 1 https://github.com/Ensembl/ensembl-variation.git
     - wget http://bioperl.org/DIST/BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
-    - tar zxvf BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz
+    - mkdir bioperl-live && tar zxvf BioPerl-1.6.1.tar.gz -C bioperl-live --strip-components 1
 
 
 install: