diff --git a/gnomeos/yocto/classes/gnomeos-contents.bbclass b/gnomeos/yocto/classes/gnomeos-contents.bbclass
index ff967ee9..8920a0bd 100644
--- a/gnomeos/yocto/classes/gnomeos-contents.bbclass
+++ b/gnomeos/yocto/classes/gnomeos-contents.bbclass
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ PACKAGE_INSTALL = "task-core-boot \
 		   ostree ostree-init \
 		   strace \
 		   bash \
+		   ncurses \
 		   python-modules"
 
 RDEPENDS += "${PACKAGE_INSTALL}"