diff --git a/recipes-support/foot/foot_git.bb b/recipes-support/foot/foot_git.bb
index 7984e32..fed35a8 100644
--- a/recipes-support/foot/foot_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-support/foot/foot_git.bb
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ?= " \
 	grapheme-clustering \
 "
 
+# Hack! tic from ncurses-native fails to generate the terminfo files. Use hosts tic instead. 
+# ncurses-bin needs to be installed.
+do_install:append() {
+	install -d ${D}${datadir}/foot/terminfo
+	/usr/bin/tic -o ${D}${datadir}/foot/terminfo -x -e foot,foot-direct ${S}/foot.info
+}
+
 inherit meson pkgconfig features_check
 
 FILES:${PN} = " \