# Setup fails curl not installed
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-fails-curl-not-installed/191495
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [May 24, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-fails-curl-not-installed/191495 "2021-05-24T18:03:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2021, 6:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-fails-curl-not-installed/191495/1 "2021-05-24T18:03:20Z")
Hi all, I’m installing Discourse in a newly boot up instance with Debian 10. Although this is not an issue for me, I think it could be an issue for most beginners as the installation says nothing about the need of `curl` or how to install it.
```plaintext
root@foro:/var/discourse# ./discourse-setup
Docker not installed. Enter to install from https://get.docker.com/ or Ctrl+C to exit
./discourse-setup: line 129: curl: command not found
Docker install failed. Quitting.
```
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### Author:  [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2021, 1:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-fails-curl-not-installed/191495/2 "2021-05-25T13:30:37Z")
Curl usually comes pre-installed in most debian based systems. However, some VPS providers do offer a ‘minimal’ image that doesn’t have curl installed.
It is as simple as `sudo apt install curl` to get this issue resolved.