diff --git a/packages/asciinema/asciinema-__main__.py.patch b/packages/asciinema/asciinema-__main__.py.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 565ff7e47..000000000
--- a/packages/asciinema/asciinema-__main__.py.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-diff -u -r ../asciinema-2.0.2/asciinema/__main__.py ./asciinema/__main__.py
---- ../asciinema-2.0.2/asciinema/__main__.py	2019-01-12 18:58:29.000000000 +0000
-+++ ./asciinema/__main__.py	2019-01-16 21:07:50.834574609 +0000
-@@ -50,10 +50,6 @@
- 
- 
- def main():
--    if locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET).upper() not in ['US-ASCII', 'UTF-8', 'UTF8']:
--        print("asciinema needs an ASCII or UTF-8 character encoding to run. Check the output of `locale` command.")
--        sys.exit(1)
--
-     try:
-         cfg = config.load()
-     except config.ConfigError as e:
diff --git a/packages/asciinema/build.sh b/packages/asciinema/build.sh
index a7e4a5959..d337dcf96 100644
--- a/packages/asciinema/build.sh
+++ b/packages/asciinema/build.sh
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://asciinema.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.1.0
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.2.0
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/archive/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=f4f4a04ab891dd513c99f72527c83fa9e634e858f2744a17e80258b90a6bf409
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=cce6f0ed6bcf47d54fe5caae14862bfb5a2e39eec1b3b467a8ed1050c298d0ec
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 # ncurses-utils for tput which asciinema uses:
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="python, ncurses-utils"
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ termux_step_make() {
 
 termux_step_make_install() {
 	export PYTHONPATH=$TERMUX_PREFIX/lib/python${_PYTHON_VERSION}/site-packages/
-	python${_PYTHON_VERSION} setup.py install --prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX --force
+	python${_PYTHON_VERSION} -m pip install . --prefix="${TERMUX_PREFIX}" --force
 }
diff --git a/packages/asciinema/locale.patch b/packages/asciinema/locale.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..45d57307c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/asciinema/locale.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Termux doesn't provide locale support, but UTF-8 is the default.
+
+--- ./asciinema/__main__.py.orig	2022-05-08 04:11:10.417277242 +0000
++++ ./asciinema/__main__.py	2022-05-08 04:11:37.593919730 +0000
+@@ -35,17 +35,6 @@
+ 
+ 
+ def main() -> Any:
+-    if locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET).upper() not in [
+-        "US-ASCII",
+-        "UTF-8",
+-        "UTF8",
+-    ]:
+-        sys.stderr.write(
+-            "asciinema needs an ASCII or UTF-8 character encoding to run. "
+-            "Check the output of `locale` command.\n"
+-        )
+-        return 1
+-
+     try:
+         cfg = config.load()
+     except config.ConfigError as e: