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@@ -961,8 +961,8 @@ def find_tex_file(filename, format=None):
     `--format` option.
 
     Apparently most existing TeX distributions on Unix-like systems
-    use kpathsea. I hear MikTeX (a popular distribution on Windows)
-    doesn't use kpathsea, so what do we do? (TODO)
+    use kpathsea. It's also available as part of MikTeX, a popular
+    distribution on Windows.
 
     .. seealso::
 
 
@@ -426,3 +426,24 @@ def backend_switcher(*args, **kwargs):
 
         return nose.tools.make_decorator(func)(backend_switcher)
     return switch_backend_decorator
+
+
+def skip_if_command_unavailable(cmd):
+    """
+    skips a test if a command is unavailable.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    cmd : list of str
+        must be a complete command which should not
+        return a non zero exit code, something like
+        ["latex", "-version"]
+    """
+    from matplotlib.compat.subprocess import check_output
+    try:
+        check_output(cmd)
+    except:
+        from nose import SkipTest
+        raise SkipTest('missing command: %s' % cmd[0])
+
+    return lambda f: f
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
                         unicode_literals)
 
 from matplotlib.externals import six
+from matplotlib.testing.decorators import skip_if_command_unavailable
+
 
 from nose.tools import assert_equal, with_setup
 import matplotlib.dviread as dr
@@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ def test_PsfontsMap():
     assert_equal(entry.filename, '/absolute/font9.pfb')
 
 
+@skip_if_command_unavailable(["kpsewhich", "-version"])
 def test_dviread():
     dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'baseline_images', 'dviread')
     with open(os.path.join(dir, 'test.json')) as f: