SIFT v2026.04.21 installation fails because ExifTool 13.59 download URL returns HTTP 404

[WomboCombo75]

Environment:
SIFT installer: cast install --mode=server teamdfir/sift-saltstack
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
WSL2
Cast v1.0.22

Problem:

A fresh installation fails near the end because the ExifTool source archive cannot be downloaded.

The installer attempts to download:

https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-13.59.tar.gz

The URL currently returns:

HTTP/2 404 Not Found

As a result, the following states fail:

sift-exiftool-source
sift-exiftool-extracted
sift-exiftool-makefile
sift-exiftool-install

These failures then cause the final Salt states (sift-scripts, sift-server-include, install-complete) to fail as dependencies.

Relevant output
Failed to cache https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-13.59.tar.gz:
HTTP 404: Not Found
comment: Failed to cache https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-13.59.tar.gz:
Error: HTTP 404: Not Found
Verification

Running

curl -I https://exiftool.org/Image-ExifTool-13.59.tar.gz

returns

HTTP/2 404

Additional information

Ubuntu already provides a working ExifTool package:

exiftool -ver
12.40

The installation completes almost entirely:

Success: 717
Failed: 7

All remaining failures are caused by the missing ExifTool source archive.

It appears that the installer references a file that is no longer available on exiftool.org and may need to be updated to the current upstream release or another valid download location.

[digitalsleuth]

Sorry for the delay in getting to this. I've submitted PR 233 which will rectify this issue going forward.