diff --git a/appveyor-linux-binary.yml b/appveyor-linux-binary.yml
index b64bc19f8f..39eaafe3ee 100644
--- a/appveyor-linux-binary.yml
+++ b/appveyor-linux-binary.yml
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ install:
 
   # Install pytest
   - sh: "pip3 install pytest"
+  # We currently need to install boto3 for pytest to work since we're ignoring a boto3 deprecation warning in the pytest configuration
   - sh: "pip3 install boto3"
   - sh: "pytest --version"
 
@@ -150,8 +151,7 @@ build_script:
   - curl -L https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli/releases/download/sam-cli-nightly/aws-sam-cli-linux-x86_64.zip -o aws-sam-cli-linux-x86_64.zip
   - unzip aws-sam-cli-linux-x86_64.zip -d sam-installation
   - sudo ./sam-installation/install
-  - sam-nightly --version
-  - mv /usr/local/bin/sam-nightly /usr/local/bin/sam
+  - sudo mv /usr/local/bin/sam-nightly /usr/local/bin/sam
   - sam --version
 
 # Final clean up no matter success or failure