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mrphs opened this issue Nov 22, 2018 · 3 comments
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install script should check to see if 'curl' is installed #318

mrphs opened this issue Nov 22, 2018 · 3 comments
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@mrphs
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mrphs commented Nov 22, 2018

'curl' isn't installed by default on Debian. The installation script tries to run docker installation script by fetching it via 'curl' but if it isn't installed, it fails all together.

The safest bet would be to make sure 'curl' is installed before getting to other steps.

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trevj commented Nov 30, 2018

@mrphs Thanks for trying Outline. Seems like we could add instructions for both wget and curl.

@trevj trevj added feature request New feature or request good first issue Good for newcomers backlog Seems valid, but no plans to tackle immediately labels Nov 30, 2018
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staticfrost commented Dec 10, 2018

I'll take a look at this one. #345

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hamm3l commented Mar 12, 2025

Would like to revive this as this is still an issue particularly on Debian 12.2 netinst, which does not come with curl by default (as is the case on many minimal Linux distro installs). It would be easy to add a check to the install bash script, and then prompt the user to install curl through their package manager. Right now the script simply fails stating it couldn't install docker, which is not helpful as one has to then go through the install script to find that the script calls curl.

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