diff --git a/debootstrap/jessie b/debootstrap/jessie
index 45f1163..42cdf7c 100644
--- a/debootstrap/jessie
+++ b/debootstrap/jessie
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ work_out_debs () {
     # login as su maybe used if run as non root (?)
     # lsb-base ?
     # mawk as it is used by dpkg
+    # ncurses-base for terminfo files as docker sets TERM=xterm
+    #   see https://github.com/bitnami/minideb/issues/17
     # passwd for managing user accounts if run as non-root.
     # sed as a very commonly used tool
     # sysv-rc for update-rc.d, required when installing initscripts in postinsts
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ work_out_debs () {
     # tzdata for handling timezones
     # util-linux for getopt
     # mount is required for mounting /proc during debootstrap
-	required="adduser base-files base-passwd bash coreutils dash debian-archive-keyring diffutils dpkg findutils grep gzip hostname libc-bin login lsb-base mawk passwd sed sysv-rc tar tzdata util-linux mount"
+	required="adduser base-files base-passwd bash coreutils dash debian-archive-keyring diffutils dpkg findutils grep gzip hostname libc-bin login lsb-base mawk ncurses-base passwd sed sysv-rc tar tzdata util-linux mount"
 
 	base="apt"
 
diff --git a/test b/test
index 445c10c..a00a941 100755
--- a/test
+++ b/test
@@ -12,7 +12,13 @@ function desc() {
 }
 
 function test() {
-    docker run --rm -e DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive "$IMAGE_ID" "$@"
+    test_extra_args '' "$@"
+}
+
+function test_extra_args() {
+    local extra_args=$1
+    shift
+    docker run --rm $extra_args -e DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive "$IMAGE_ID" "$@"
     echo ""
     echo TEST: OK
     echo ""
@@ -40,3 +46,7 @@ desc "Check that install_packages doesn't loop forever on failures"
 # We check that we didn't install the package afterwards, just in case a package gets added with that name.
 # We wrap the whole thing in a timeout so that it doesn't loop forever. It's not ideal to have a timeout as there may be spurious failures if the network is slow.
 test bash -c 'timeout 60 bash -c "(install_packages thispackagebetternotexist || true) && ! dpkg -l thispackagebetternotexist"'
+
+# See https://github.com/bitnami/minideb/issues/17
+desc "Checking that the terminfo is valid when running with -t (#17)"
+echo "" | test_extra_args '-t' bash -c 'install_packages procps && top -d1 -n1 -b'