diff --git a/bindep.txt b/bindep.txt
index 80ce1bf915..1d65d3ff87 100644
--- a/bindep.txt
+++ b/bindep.txt
@@ -6,15 +6,22 @@ gcc [platform:rpm]
 gettext [!platform:suse]
 gettext-runtime [platform:suse]
 liberasurecode-dev [platform:dpkg]
-liberasurecode-devel [platform:rpm]
+# There's no library in CentOS 7 but Fedora and openSUSE have it.
+liberasurecode-devel [platform:rpm !platform:centos]
 libffi-dev [platform:dpkg]
 libffi-devel [platform:rpm]
 memcached
 python-dev [platform:dpkg]
 python-devel [platform:rpm]
 python3-dev [platform:dpkg]
-python34-devel [platform:redhat]
-python3-devel [platfrom:suse]
+python3-devel [platform:fedora platform:suse]
+# python3-devel does not pull in the python3 package on openSUSE so
+# we need to be explicit. The python3 package contains the XML module
+# which is required by a python3 virtualenv. Similarly, in python2,
+# the XML module is located in python-xml which is not pulled in
+# by python-devel as well. See https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046990
+python3 [platform:suse]
+python-xml [platform:suse]
 rsync
 xfsprogs
 libssl-dev [platform:dpkg]
diff --git a/tools/test-setup.sh b/tools/test-setup.sh
index e8f2e944c3..efed6f01e0 100755
--- a/tools/test-setup.sh
+++ b/tools/test-setup.sh
@@ -12,3 +12,19 @@ truncate -s 1GB $HOME/1G_xfs_file
 mkdir -p $HOME/xfstmp
 sudo mount -o loop,noatime,nodiratime $HOME/1G_xfs_file $HOME/xfstmp
 sudo chmod 777 $HOME/xfstmp
+
+# Install liberasurecode-devel for CentOS from RDO repository.
+
+function is_rhel7 {
+    [ -f /usr/bin/yum ] && \
+        cat /etc/*release | grep -q -e "Red Hat" -e "CentOS" -e "CloudLinux" && \
+        cat /etc/*release | grep -q 'release 7'
+}
+
+
+if is_rhel7; then
+    # Install CentOS OpenStack repos so that we have access to some extra
+    # packages.
+    sudo yum install -y centos-release-openstack-pike
+    sudo yum install -y liberasurecode-devel
+fi