diff --git a/ci/before_install_jython.sh b/ci/before_install_jython.sh
index 59e57d8..e3e12e9 100755
--- a/ci/before_install_jython.sh
+++ b/ci/before_install_jython.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ pip install jip==0.7
 jip install org.python:$JYTHON
 _JYTHON_BASENAME=${JYTHON/:/-}
 OLD_VIRTUAL_ENV=$VIRTUAL_ENV
-$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/deactivate
 java -jar $OLD_VIRTUAL_ENV/javalib/${_JYTHON_BASENAME}.jar -s -d ~/jython
 touch requirements.txt
 BEFORE_PY_26=$(~/jython/bin/jython -c "import sys; print sys.version_info < (2, 6)")