diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/vigra/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/vigra/default.nix
index 14211ea65e9..4a002becdb3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/vigra/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/vigra/default.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  # fails with "./test_watersheds3d: error while loading shared libraries: libvigraimpex.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
+  doCheck = false;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Novel computer vision C++ library with customizable algorithms and data structures";
     homepage = https://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/vigra;