Curl dropped from Ubuntu 26.04 minimal cloud images by mistake

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Curl dropped from Ubuntu 26.04 minimal cloud images by mistake

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS's minimal cloud images have been missing curl – accidentally, it turns out, so Canonical has put it back. Curl is a commonly-used command-line tool for fetching files from remote servers. It's called on in countless install scripts, CI pipelines and one-liners you've no doubt pasted into your terminal without thinking twice about. But the package has been missing from the server-cloud-minimal images of 26.04 to date. That caught those running pared-back cloud installs unawares, breaking expected workflows, has it had been available in previous versions. The manual fix is to install curl from the repos which, in [...]

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Categories: News, Bug Fixes, cloud, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, ubuntu server
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-2604-server-cloud-minimal-curl-missing Aug 03, 2026, 05:34 PM