diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh2/files/run-ptest b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh2/files/run-ptest
index 2a7922f1aa..c213b32e5f 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh2/files/run-ptest
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh2/files/run-ptest
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 ptestdir=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")
-for test in $(ls $ptestdir/tests)
+cd tests
+for test in $(ls)
 do
-	./test-driver --test-name $test --log-file $test.log --trs-file $test.trs --color-tests no --enable-hard-errors yes --expect-failure no -- ./tests/$test
+	./../test-driver --test-name $test --log-file ../$test.log --trs-file ../$test.trs --color-tests no --enable-hard-errors yes --expect-failure no -- ./$test
 done
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh2/libssh2_1.9.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh2/libssh2_1.9.0.bb
index a1d85617a6..38f1626935 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh2/libssh2_1.9.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/libssh2/libssh2_1.9.0.bb
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[gcrypt] = "--with-crypto=libgcrypt --with-libgcrypt-prefix=${STAGI
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
 
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest = "bash"
+# required for ptest on documentation
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest = "man-db"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest_append_libc-glibc = " locale-base-en-us"
 
 do_compile_ptest() {
 	sed -i "/\$(MAKE) \$(AM_MAKEFLAGS) check-TESTS/d" tests/Makefile
@@ -40,4 +42,6 @@ do_install_ptest() {
 	install -m 0755 ${B}/tests/.libs/simple ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
 	install -m 0755 ${S}/tests/mansyntax.sh ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
 	install -m 0755 ${S}/test-driver ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
+	mkdir -p ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/docs
+	cp -r ${S}/docs/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/docs/
 }