diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 9ce1ae08..79877d58 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ before_script:
 - "/sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /tmp/custom_xvfb_99.pid --make-pidfile
   --background --exec /usr/bin/Xvfb -- :99 -ac -screen 0 1024x768x24"
 - sleep 3  # give xvfb some time to start
+- if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == '3.5' ]]; then export DISABLE_OCR=1; fi
 - if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == 'pypy3.5' ]]; then export DISABLE_AUTOPY=1; fi
 - if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == 'pypy3.5' ]]; then export DISABLE_PYQT=1; fi
 - if [[ $TRAVIS_PYTHON_VERSION == 'pypy3.5' ]]; then export DISABLE_OPENCV=1; fi
diff --git a/packaging/packager_deb.sh b/packaging/packager_deb.sh
index bcf0587a..154eeab2 100644
--- a/packaging/packager_deb.sh
+++ b/packaging/packager_deb.sh
@@ -21,9 +21,13 @@ else
     apt-get -y install python3-opencv
 fi
 # text matching
-apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr libtesseract-dev
-apt-get -y install g++ pkg-config
-pip3 install pytesseract==0.3.4 tesserocr==2.5.1
+if [[ $distro_version == "xenial" ]]; then
+    export DISABLE_OCR=1
+else
+    apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr libtesseract-dev
+    apt-get -y install g++ pkg-config
+    pip3 install pytesseract==0.3.4 tesserocr==2.5.1
+fi
 # deep learning
 pip3 install torch==1.4.0 torchvision==0.5.0
 # screen controlling