Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

1.42 Fails with: "curl: command not found"

Open
#113 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, typescript
Domain
ci-cd, devops

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating where the action invokes curl and reviewing the existing documentation; clarify whether completion means adding a wget fallback, documenting curl as a host requirement, or both, then verify the chosen behavior in the relevant workflow or documentation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

This could be run on a self-hosted runner or within a container with Github Actions, so assumptions can't be made about binaries are available in the environment.

In particular, all of them won't include curl.

To make the action more robust, it could try usingwget if curl is not available.

Otherwise, it should be disclaimed in the docs that curl is requirement of the container or host that this Action runs in.

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
938
Forks
137
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from tailscale/github-action

All issues in tailscale/github-action

Similar issues

More TypeScript issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.