--- a/tests/utils.py
+++ b/tests/utils.py
@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@

 import pytest

-from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
+try:
+    from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download as _hf_hub_download
+    _HF_AVAILABLE = True
+except ImportError:
+    _HF_AVAILABLE = False


 DATA_PATH = os.path.join("tests", "data")
@@ -11,8 +15,10 @@


 def download(filename):
+    if not _HF_AVAILABLE:
+        pytest.skip("huggingface_hub is not installed")
     # huggingface_hub handles auth (HF_TOKEN), retry/backoff and ETag-based caching.
-    return hf_hub_download(repo_id=HF_TEST_REPO, filename=filename, repo_type="dataset")
+    return _hf_hub_download(repo_id=HF_TEST_REPO, filename=filename, repo_type="dataset")


 @pytest.fixture(scope="session")
--- a/tests/test_serialization.py
+++ b/tests/test_serialization.py
@@ -4,7 +4,10 @@
 import unittest

 import tqdm
-from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
+try:
+    from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
+except ImportError:
+    hf_hub_download = None
 from tokenizers import Tokenizer
 from tokenizers.models import BPE, Unigram

--- a/tests/documentation/test_tutorial_train_from_iterators.py
+++ b/tests/documentation/test_tutorial_train_from_iterators.py
@@ -2,8 +2,11 @@
 import gzip
 import os

-import datasets  # type: ignore[import-not-found]
 import pytest
+try:
+    import datasets  # type: ignore[import-not-found]
+except ImportError:
+    pytest.skip("datasets is not installed", allow_module_level=True)

 from ..utils import data_dir, train_files