t/search-thr-index.t | 7 +++++--
 t/search.t           | 7 +++++--

diff --git a/t/search-thr-index.t b/t/search-thr-index.t
index 848dc56459d5acf23c64dacf6f2726e359007b29..1872af84e124430ee02b826f57e00b7045d52b4a 100644
--- a/t/search-thr-index.t
+++ b/t/search-thr-index.t
@@ -7,8 +7,11 @@ use Test::More;
 use File::Temp qw/tempdir/;
 use PublicInbox::MID qw(mids);
 use Email::MIME;
-eval { require Search::Xapian };
-plan skip_all => "Search::Xapian missing for search" if $@;
+my @mods = qw(DBI DBD::SQLite Search::Xapian);
+foreach my $mod (@mods) {
+	eval "require $mod";
+	plan skip_all => "missing $mod for $0" if $@;
+}
 require PublicInbox::SearchIdx;
 my $tmpdir = tempdir('pi-search-thr-index.XXXXXX', TMPDIR => 1, CLEANUP => 1);
 my $git_dir = "$tmpdir/a.git";
diff --git a/t/search.t b/t/search.t
index a9d0c92030e1a936a5e7d5a77b4b22c65d5645c1..c063620c4d1a52b051bfc800057ed7f877d5f7fa 100644
--- a/t/search.t
+++ b/t/search.t
@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@ # License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Test::More;
-eval { require Search::Xapian };
-plan skip_all => "Search::Xapian missing for search" if $@;
+my @mods = qw(DBI DBD::SQLite Search::Xapian);
+foreach my $mod (@mods) {
+	eval "require $mod";
+	plan skip_all => "missing $mod for $0" if $@;
+};
 require PublicInbox::SearchIdx;
 use File::Temp qw/tempdir/;
 use Email::MIME;