diff --git a/automated install/basic-install.sh b/automated install/basic-install.sh
index 98322cb7..7499336b 100755
--- a/automated install/basic-install.sh	
+++ b/automated install/basic-install.sh	
@@ -1164,17 +1164,19 @@ FTLinstall() {
     echo ":::   failed (error in getting latest release location from GitHub)"
     return 1
   fi
-  if curl -sSL --fail "${latestURL}${binary}" -o "/tmp/pihole-FTL"; then
-    echo ":::   done"
-    install -m 0755 /tmp/pihole-FTL /usr/bin
-    touch /var/log/pihole-FTL.log /var/run/pihole-FTL.pid /var/run/pihole-FTL.port
-    chmod 0666 /var/log/pihole-FTL.log /var/run/pihole-FTL.pid /var/run/pihole-FTL.port
-    return 0
-  else
-    echo ":::   failed (download of binary from Github failed)"
-    return 1
+  if curl -sSL --fail "${latestURL%$'\r'}/${binary}" -o "/tmp/pihole-FTL"; then
+    if [[ -f /tmp/pihole-FTL ]]; then
+      echo ":::   done"
+      install -m 0755 /tmp/pihole-FTL /usr/bin
+      touch /var/log/pihole-FTL.log /var/run/pihole-FTL.pid /var/run/pihole-FTL.port
+      chmod 0666 /var/log/pihole-FTL.log /var/run/pihole-FTL.pid /var/run/pihole-FTL.port
+      return 0
+    else
+      echo ":::   failed (download of binary from Github failed)"
+      return 1
+    fi
+    echo "done"
   fi
-  echo "done"
 }
 
 FTLdetect() {
diff --git a/test/test_automated_install.py b/test/test_automated_install.py
index b0dded5c..40e0000b 100644
--- a/test/test_automated_install.py
+++ b/test/test_automated_install.py
@@ -355,6 +355,29 @@ def test_FTL_detect_unknown_no_errors(Pihole):
     ''')
     expected_stdout = 'Not able to detect architecture (unknown: mips)'
     assert expected_stdout in detectPlatform.stdout
+
+def test_FTL_download_aarch64_no_errors(Pihole):
+    ''' confirms only aarch64 package is downloaded for FTL engine '''
+    # mock uname to return generic platform
+    download_binary = Pihole.run('''
+    source /opt/pihole/basic-install.sh
+    FTLinstall pihole-FTL-aarch64-linux-gnu
+    ''')
+    expected_stdout = 'done'
+    assert expected_stdout in download_binary.stdout
+    assert 'failed' not in download_binary.stdout
+
+def test_FTL_download_unknown_fails_no_errors(Pihole):
+    ''' confirms unknown binary is not downloaded for FTL engine '''
+    # mock uname to return generic platform
+    download_binary = Pihole.run('''
+    source /opt/pihole/basic-install.sh
+    FTLinstall pihole-FTL-mips
+    ''')
+    expected_stdout = 'failed'
+    assert expected_stdout in download_binary.stdout
+    assert 'done' not in download_binary.stdout
+
 # Helper functions
 def mock_command(script, args, container):
     ''' Allows for setup of commands we don't really want to have to run for real in unit tests '''