Ubuntu 26.04 LTS minimal cloud server images accidentally shipped without curl after the pollinate package (which curl depended on) was dropped. Curl was never explicitly listed in the minimal seed, so it disappeared as a side effect. Canonical engineers have now explicitly added curl back to the seed, and existing installs will receive it on the next system update. However, there is ongoing internal debate about whether to remove curl from the seed again in Ubuntu 26.10, since minimal images are intended to be lean and curl is not essential for booting.
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