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Install query - just for reference

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#5,886 opened on Jul 10, 2026

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Description

Previously I had installed webui on a machine which already had hermes agent installed.

Today I was testing on a new install of Ubuntu 26.04

So as per https://get-hermes.ai/setup/

It says to run

curl -fsSL https://get-hermes.ai/install.sh | bash

And it will "installs Hermes Agent if it's missing"

But it doesn't

It actually just says as below and tells you that you need to manually install it first

I assume it should be doing it automatically as per the wording on above page?

darren@Ubuntu:~/Downloads$ curl -fsSL https://get-hermes.ai/install.sh | bash

Hermes Web UI installer (community project)

✓ git and Python 3.14 found

! Hermes Agent (the hermes CLI) is not installed yet. Hermes Web UI runs on top of Hermes Agent, so install that first:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

Then re-open your shell (or source ~/.bashrc) and run this installer again. Agent docs: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/getting-started/installation

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Research direction
Examine the install script at the URL in the issue to understand why it skips installing Hermes Agent automatically, then modify it to call the agent's install script when the agent is missing.
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