diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tracker/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tracker/default.nix
index c7f71ead9c0d..b3681b7a8b69 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/tracker/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/tracker/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 , docbook_xsl
 , docbook_xml_dtd_412
 , docbook_xml_dtd_43
-, glibcLocales
+, docbook_xml_dtd_45
 , libxml2
 , upower
 , glib
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     docbook_xsl
     docbook_xml_dtd_412
     docbook_xml_dtd_43
-    glibcLocales
+    docbook_xml_dtd_45
     python3 # for data-generators
     systemd # used for checks to install systemd user service
     dbus # used for checks and pkgconfig to install dbus service/s
@@ -80,15 +80,42 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     libstemmer
   ];
 
+  checkInputs = [
+    python3.pkgs.pygobject3
+  ];
+
   mesonFlags = [
     # TODO: figure out wrapping unit tests, some of them fail on missing gsettings-desktop-schemas
-    "-Dfunctional_tests=false"
+    # "-Dfunctional_tests=true"
     "-Ddocs=true"
   ];
 
+  doCheck = true;
+
   postPatch = ''
     patchShebangs utils/g-ir-merge/g-ir-merge
     patchShebangs utils/data-generators/cc/generate
+    patchShebangs tests/functional-tests/test-runner.sh.in
+    patchShebangs tests/functional-tests/*.py
+  '';
+
+  preCheck = ''
+    # (tracker-store:6194): Tracker-CRITICAL **: 09:34:07.722: Cannot initialize database: Could not open sqlite3 database:'/homeless-shelter/.cache/tracker/meta.db': unable to open database file
+    export HOME=$(mktemp -d)
+
+    # Our gobject-introspection patches make the shared library paths absolute
+    # in the GIR files. When running functional tests, the library is not yet installed,
+    # though, so we need to replace the absolute path with a local one during build.
+    # We are using a symlink that will be overridden during installation.
+    mkdir -p $out/lib
+    ln -s $PWD/src/libtracker-sparql-backend/libtracker-sparql-2.0.so $out/lib/libtracker-sparql-2.0.so.0
+    ln -s $PWD/src/libtracker-miner/libtracker-miner-2.0.so $out/lib/libtracker-miner-2.0.so.0
+    ln -s $PWD/src/libtracker-data/libtracker-data.so $out/lib/libtracker-data.so
+  '';
+
+  postCheck = ''
+    # Clean up out symlinks
+    rm -r $out/lib
   '';
 
   postInstall = ''