@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ Aegir installs itself via a drush_make f
 If you don't have the git program you will need to install it on the server.
 The jQueryUI library is used in the Aegir UI, unzip is required to extract it.
 Sudo is required to allow the aegir user the limited privileges to restart the webserver
-when required.
+when required. You also need to have 2 curl packages (curl, php5-curl) installed 
+for aegir to work properly.
 
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@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@ you can install all those packages using
 Shell commands::
 
  apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-cli php5-mysql mysql-server postfix
- apt-get install sudo git-core unzip
+ apt-get install sudo git-core unzip curl php5-curl