diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 330cce59b9..01e2553f3a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ before_script:
   - sh -c "if [ '$DB' = 'mariadb' ]; then travis/setup-mariadb.sh; fi"
   - sh -c "if [ '$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION' = '5.3' -a '$DB' = 'mysql' ]; then mysql -e 'SET GLOBAL storage_engine=MyISAM;'; fi"
   - sh -c "if [ '$DB' = 'mysql' -o '$DB' = 'mariadb' ]; then mysql -e 'create database IF NOT EXISTS phpbb_tests;'; fi"
-  - sh -c "if [ '$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION' = '5.2' ]; then pear install --force phpunit/DbUnit; phpenv rehash; fi"
+  - sh -c "if [ '$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION' = '5.2' ]; then travis/install-phpunit-5-2.sh; fi"
   - cd phpBB
   - sh -c "if [ '$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION' != '5.2' ]; then php ../composer.phar install --dev --no-interaction --prefer-source; fi"
   - cd ..
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ before_script:
   - sh -c "if [ '$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION' = '5.3.3' -a '$DB' = 'mysql' ]; then sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install -y parallel libimage-exiftool-perl; fi"
 
 script:
-  - sh -c "if [ '$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION' = '5.2' ]; then phpunit --configuration travis/phpunit-$DB-5-2-travis.xml; else phpBB/vendor/bin/phpunit --configuration travis/phpunit-$DB-travis.xml; fi"
+  - sh -c "if [ '$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION' = '5.2' ]; then php -d include_path='.:phpunit' phpunit/phpunit.php --configuration travis/phpunit-$DB-5-2-travis.xml; else phpBB/vendor/bin/phpunit --configuration travis/phpunit-$DB-travis.xml; fi"
   - sh -c "if [ '$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION' = '5.3.3' -a '$DB' = 'mysql' -a '$TRAVIS_PULL_REQUEST' != 'false' ]; then git-tools/commit-msg-hook-range.sh origin/$TRAVIS_BRANCH..FETCH_HEAD; fi"
   - sh -c "if [ '$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION' = '5.3.3' -a '$DB' = 'mysql' ]; then find . -type f -not -path './phpBB/vendor/*' -iregex '.*\.\(gif\|jpg\|jpeg\|png\)$' | parallel --gnu --keep-order 'phpBB/develop/strip_icc_profiles.sh {}' || exit 1; fi"
 
diff --git a/travis/install-phpunit-5-2.sh b/travis/install-phpunit-5-2.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..28f9069960
--- /dev/null
+++ b/travis/install-phpunit-5-2.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# @copyright (c) 2015 phpBB Group
+# @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php GNU General Public License v2
+#
+
+# $1 - URL to .tar.gz
+download() {
+	wget -q -O - "$1" | tar xzvf - --strip-components 1
+}
+
+mkdir phpunit
+cd phpunit
+download https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/archive/3.6.12.tar.gz
+download https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-file-iterator/archive/1.3.1.tar.gz
+download https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-code-coverage/archive/1.1.3.tar.gz
+download https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-token-stream/archive/1.1.3.tar.gz
+download https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-text-template/archive/1.1.2.tar.gz
+download https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-timer/archive/1.0.2.tar.gz
+download https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-mock-objects/archive/1.1.1.tar.gz
+download https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/dbunit/archive/1.1.2.tar.gz
+cd ..