diff --git a/ci/install.sh b/ci/install.sh
index 4795ac8f4f59d..a6fe57818a376 100755
--- a/ci/install.sh
+++ b/ci/install.sh
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@ pip Install -I https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads/setuptools-0.8b6.
 pip install wheel
 
 # comment this line to disable the fetching of wheel files
-PIP_ARGS+=" -I --use-wheel --find-links=https://cache27-pypandas.rhcloud.com/"
+PIP_ARGS+=" --use-wheel --find-links=https://cache27-pypandas.rhcloud.com/"
 
+SITE_PKG_DIR=$VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages
 # Force virtualenv to accpet system_site_packages
 rm -f $VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python$TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION/no-global-site-packages.txt
 
@@ -57,11 +58,9 @@ for dep in nose 'python-dateutil' 'pytz>=2013a' 'cython==0.19.1'; do
     time pip install $PIP_ARGS $dep
 done
 
+
 if [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION} == "3.3" ]; then # should be >=3,3
     time pip install $PIP_ARGS numpy==1.7.1
-elif [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION} == "3.2" ]; then
-    # sudo apt-get $APT_ARGS install python3-numpy; # 1.6.2 or precise
-    time pip install $PIP_ARGS numpy==1.6.1
 else
     time pip install $PIP_ARGS numpy==1.6.1
 fi
@@ -70,13 +69,12 @@ fi
 if [ x"$FULL_DEPS" == x"true" ]; then
     echo "Installing FULL_DEPS"
 
+    time pip install $PIP_ARGS numexpr==2.1
     if [ ${TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION:0:1} == "2" ]; then
         time pip install $PIP_ARGS xlwt
         time pip install $PIP_ARGS bottleneck==0.6.0
-        time pip install $PIP_ARGS numexpr==2.1
         time pip install $PIP_ARGS tables==2.3.1
     else
-        time pip install $PIP_ARGS numexpr==2.1
         time pip install $PIP_ARGS tables==3.0.0
     fi
 
@@ -93,6 +91,7 @@ if [ x"$FULL_DEPS" == x"true" ]; then
       time sudo apt-get $APT_ARGS remove python-lxml
     fi
 
+    pip install $PIP_ARGS lxml
     # fool statsmodels into thinking pandas was already installed
     # so it won't refuse to install itself.
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7d59e0f95f0e8..2bc99b46f13c1 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@
                  "\n$ pip install distribute")
 
 else:
-    min_numpy_ver = '1.6.1'
     setuptools_kwargs = {
         'install_requires': ['python-dateutil',
                              'pytz',