diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 88be84393..26fa93971 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ jobs:
       - checkout
       - run: pacman --noconfirm -Syu freetype2 meson git clang cairo icu gettext gobject-introspection gcc gcc-libs glib2 graphite pkg-config ragel python python-pip base-devel gtk-doc
       - run: pip install flake8 fonttools
-      - run: pip install git+https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson
       - run: flake8 . --count --select=E901,E999,F821,F822,F823 --show-source --statistics
       - run: meson build -Dgraphite=enabled -Dauto_features=enabled -Dexperimental_api=true
       - run: meson compile -Cbuild -j9
@@ -183,7 +182,7 @@ workflows:
               ignore: /.*/
       - fedora-valgrind
       - alpine
-      - archlinux
+     #- archlinux
       - sanitizers
       - crossbuild-win32:
           filters: