diff --git a/test-req.pip b/test-req.pip
index 04e9735..58011eb 100644
--- a/test-req.pip
+++ b/test-req.pip
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ nosexcover
 # NOTE: scripttest 1.0.1 removes base_path argument to ScriptTest
 scripttest==1.0
 pytz
-psycopg2
+# work around initd.org download problems.
+# psycopg2
+http://initd.org/psycopg/tarballs/psycopg2-2.2.2.tar.gz
 pysqlite
 mysql-python
 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/kinterbasdb-3.3.0.tar.bz2