diff --git a/srcpkgs/castero/template b/srcpkgs/castero/template
index 217e0a0108..d813120d88 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/castero/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/castero/template
@@ -1,25 +1,32 @@
 # Template file for 'castero'
 pkgname=castero
-version=0.8.2
-revision=3
+version=0.9.3
+revision=1
 build_style=python3-module
 hostmakedepends="python3-setuptools"
-depends="python3-BeautifulSoup4 python3-cjkwrap python3-gevent
- python3-grequests python3-mpv python3-requests"
+# taken from https://github.com/xgi/castero/blob/master/requirements.txt,
+# minus the test dependencies
+depends="python3-mpv python3-requests python3-grequests python3-cjkwrap
+ python3-lxml python3-BeautifulSoup4 python3-pytz"
+checkdepends="python3-pytest $depends"
 short_desc="TUI podcast client for the terminal"
 maintainer="Nathan Owens <ndowens04@gmail.com>"
 license="MIT"
 homepage="https://github.com/xgi/castero"
 distfiles="https://github.com/xgi/castero/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=2dd0f33965e8d5908b3ad04660d810add538b579e9aa75c7237855a8193daf8e
+checksum=d0cea7efbfc0dd7ae01e496a81b67a1d4a47dbc2ab28ff61be5ae7910015717d
 
 # Remove requirement of python3-vlc
 # as we can use python3-mpv instead,
 # also because python*-vlc is not in repo
-pre_build() {
+post_patch() {
 	vsed -e '/python-vlc/d' -i setup.py
 }
 
+pre_check() {
+	rm tests/test_player_vlcplayer.py
+}
+
 post_install() {
 	vlicense LICENSE.txt LICENSE
 }