diff --git a/common/travis/install_cmake.sh b/common/travis/install_cmake.sh
index fae07510..3cc654e3 100755
--- a/common/travis/install_cmake.sh
+++ b/common/travis/install_cmake.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 if [ -z "$(ls -A "${DEPS_DIR}/cmake/bin" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
-  mkdir -p "${DEPS_DIR}/cmake" && travis_retry wget --no-check-certificate -O - "${CMAKE_URL}" | tar --strip-components=1 -xz -C "${DEPS_DIR}/cmake"
+  mkdir -p "${DEPS_DIR}/cmake"
+  cd "${DEPS_DIR}/cmake" || exit 1
+  travis_retry wget --no-check-certificate -O - "${CMAKE_URL}" | tar --strip-components=1 -xz
 fi
 
 export PATH="${DEPS_DIR}/cmake/bin:${PATH}"
diff --git a/common/travis/install_xcb_xrm.sh b/common/travis/install_xcb_xrm.sh
index 08599b89..e9182bbf 100755
--- a/common/travis/install_xcb_xrm.sh
+++ b/common/travis/install_xcb_xrm.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 if [ -z "$(ls -A "${DEPS_DIR}/xcb-util-xrm" 2>/dev/null)" ]; then
+  cd "${DEPS_DIR}" || exit 1
   git clone --recursive https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm
-  cd xcb-util-xrm
+  cd xcb-util-xrm || exit 1
   ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib
   make
   sudo make install