diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index f354edd9..071724c2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ jobs:
         sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get update
         sudo apt-get install python3-dev libhunspell-dev libyaml-dev gettext zip mercurial bzr ruby git wget g++ curl subversion python3 python3-pip -y
         sudo gem install i18n-translators-tools
+        virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 python3-env
+        source python3-env/bin/activate
         python --version
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
         pip install -r requirements.txt