diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3eaf4ac380f4c..6a48bad8ae43f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ addons:
     sources:
     - deadsnakes
     packages:
+    # CoreCLR packages required for manual installation. Should be removed once we move to apt-det
+    - gettext
+    - libcurl4-openssl-dev
+    - libicu-dev
+    - libssl-dev
+    - libunwind8
+    - zlib1g
     # Packages required for android build
     - libc6-i386
     - lib32stdc++6
@@ -31,10 +38,14 @@ install:
   - echo y | ./android/android-sdk-linux/tools/android update sdk --all --filter extra-android-support,extra-android-m2repository,extra-google-m2repository --no-ui --force
   - export ANDROID_HOME=`pwd`/android/android-sdk-linux
   # Install NetCore RC2
-  - sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt-mo.trafficmanager.net/repos/dotnet/ trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotnetdev.list' 
-  - sudo apt-key adv --keyserver apt-mo.trafficmanager.net --recv-keys 417A0893
-  - sudo apt-get update
-  - sudo apt-get install dotnet-dev-1.0.0-preview1-002702 -y
+  # due to bug in apt-get we need to use curl to download dotnet-install.sh. Commenting apt-get installation steps till the bug will be fixed. 
+  # - sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt-mo.trafficmanager.net/repos/dotnet/ trusty main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotnetdev.list' 
+  # - sudo apt-key adv --keyserver apt-mo.trafficmanager.net --recv-keys 417A0893
+  # - sudo apt-get update
+  # - sudo apt-get install dotnet-dev-1.0.0-preview2-003118 -y
+  - mkdir dotnet
+  - curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/cli/rel/1.0.0-preview1/scripts/obtain/dotnet-install.sh | bash /dev/stdin --version 1.0.0-preview1-002702 --install-dir ./dotnet
+  - export PATH=`pwd`/dotnet:$PATH
 script:
   - gulp
 after_script: