diff --git a/build/travis/job_macos/install.sh b/build/travis/job_macos/install.sh
index b3599c5bca6f0..b558e1bdb9ca4 100755
--- a/build/travis/job_macos/install.sh
+++ b/build/travis/job_macos/install.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ cmake --version
 #hack to fix wget not properly working with openssl@1.1
 brew uninstall wget
 brew install wget
-brew uninstall python2
+brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies python2
 brew install python2
 
 #install Qt from S3 storage