It's in the docs … on my servers this fixes things as well: S=my_server ; ssh $S 'mkdir -p ~/.terminfo/f/' ; scp /usr/share/terminfo/f/foot $S:~/.terminfo/

It's in the docs … on my servers this fixes things as well: S=my_server ; ssh $S 'mkdir -p ~/.terminfo/f/' ; scp /usr/share/terminfo/f/foot $S:~/.terminfo/f/foot PITA still.