diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index dc45fcc2..34b4c845 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,19 @@ addons:
     packages:
     - lua5.1
     - luarocks
-  
+    - git
+    - make
+    - gcc
+    - g++
+    - unzip
+    - libncurses5-dev
+    - zlib1g-dev
+    - subversion
+    - gawk
+    - bzip2
+    - libssl-dev
+    - wget
+
 install:
   - eval $(luarocks path --bin)
   - luarocks install --local lua-cjson
diff --git a/tests/validate_site.sh b/tests/validate_site.sh
index 1267e22c..1f4f6c9a 100644
--- a/tests/validate_site.sh
+++ b/tests/validate_site.sh
@@ -5,3 +5,10 @@
 GLUON_SITEDIR="docs/site-example" lua5.1 scripts/site_config.lua
 
 bash -n scripts/*.sh
+
+cp -a docs/site-example site
+
+TARGET=ar71xx-generic
+make update GLUON_TARGET=$TARGET
+make clean GLUON_TARGET=$TARGET
+make GLUON_TARGET=$TARGET