diff --git a/tests/ci/api_common_install.sh b/tests/ci/api_common_install.sh
index 43d5dcdad..fc2fadcda 100755
--- a/tests/ci/api_common_install.sh
+++ b/tests/ci/api_common_install.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ set -e
 if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo no ip specified; exit 1;fi
 # prepare cert ...
 sudo ./tests/generateCerts.sh $1
-sudo wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py && sudo python ./get-pip.py && sudo pip install --ignore-installed urllib3 chardet requests --upgrade
+sudo apt-get install -y python-pip && sudo pip install --ignore-installed urllib3 chardet requests --upgrade
 sudo ./tests/hostcfg.sh
 
 if [ "$2" = 'LDAP' ]; then