diff --git a/pkgs/servers/nosql/redis/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/nosql/redis/default.nix
index bf1ccbd06d56..51df7c18a1e6 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/nosql/redis/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/nosql/redis/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  doCheck = false; # needs tcl
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://redis.io;
     description = "An open source, advanced key-value store";