diff --git a/srcpkgs/lz4/template b/srcpkgs/lz4/template
index 8fb806e8ad7..a03a5f65a0c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/lz4/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/lz4/template
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ revision=1
 bootstrap=yes
 build_style=gnu-makefile
 make_check_target=test
+checkdepends="python3"
 short_desc="LZ4 compression utilities"
 maintainer="Alessio Sergi <al3hex@gmail.com>"
 license="BSD-2-Clause, GPL-2.0-or-later"