diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index d1922ea0f298b07d2d805f281233da94f4c5fdf5..740b50874a2e41d5b13252245d40708c2892216f 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 environment:
    BINSTAR_USER: jlaura
-
+   PYTHON_VERSION: 3.4
+   
 platform:
    - x64
 
@@ -17,13 +18,14 @@ install:
    - cmd: conda config --add channels jlaura
    - cmd: conda install -c conda-forge gdal h5py
    - cmd: conda install pandas sqlalchemy pyyaml
-   - cmd: conda install -c jlaura pvl protobuf
+   - cmd: pip install pvl 
+   - cmd: pip install protobuf
 
    # Development installation
-   - cmd: conda install nose coverage sh anaconda-client
+   - cmd: conda install nose coverage anaconda-client
    - cmd: pip install coveralls
 
-   - appveyor DownloadFile "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/menpo/condaci/v0.4.8/condaci.py -O condaci.pyi"
+   - cmd: curl -o condaci.py https://raw.githubusercontent.com/menpo/condaci/v0.4.8/condaci.py
    - cmd: python condaci.py setup
 
 build: off