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-rwxr-xr-xqa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py9
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diff --git a/qa/README.md b/qa/README.md
index 758d1f47e5..2b476c4d8d 100644
--- a/qa/README.md
+++ b/qa/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,17 @@ Every pull request to the bitcoin repository is built and run through
the regression test suite. You can also run all or only individual
tests locally.
+Test dependencies
+=================
+Before running the tests, the following must be installed.
+
+Unix
+----
+The python-zmq library is required. On Ubuntu or Debian it can be installed via:
+```
+sudo apt-get install python-zmq
+```
+
Running tests
=============
diff --git a/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py b/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py
index 7649c1183b..485888e9b4 100755
--- a/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py
+++ b/qa/pull-tester/rpc-tests.py
@@ -40,6 +40,15 @@ if not vars().has_key('ENABLE_UTILS'):
ENABLE_UTILS=0
if not vars().has_key('ENABLE_ZMQ'):
ENABLE_ZMQ=0
+
+# python-zmq may not be installed. Handle this gracefully and with some helpful info
+if ENABLE_ZMQ:
+ try:
+ import zmq
+ except ImportError:
+ print("WARNING: \"import zmq\" failed. Setting ENABLE_ZMQ=0. " \
+ "To run zmq tests, see dependency info in /qa/README.md.")
+ ENABLE_ZMQ=0
ENABLE_COVERAGE=0