diff --git a/Readme.adoc b/Readme.adoc
index 7690ebc..1faee27 100644
--- a/Readme.adoc
+++ b/Readme.adoc
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ bundles `lc` with the wrapper scripts (`lcreate`, `lcls`, `lclose`,
 
 [source,sh]
 ----
-$ curl -sLO https://github.com/rubyists/linear-cli/releases/latest/download/lc_macos_aarch64.tar.gz
-$ curl -sLo SHA256SUMS https://github.com/rubyists/linear-cli/releases/latest/download/SHA256SUMS
+$ curl --retry 5 --retry-all-errors -sLO https://github.com/rubyists/linear-cli/releases/latest/download/lc_macos_aarch64.tar.gz
+$ curl --retry 5 --retry-all-errors -sLo SHA256SUMS https://github.com/rubyists/linear-cli/releases/latest/download/SHA256SUMS
 $ grep -q lc_macos_aarch64.tar.gz SHA256SUMS && grep lc_macos_aarch64.tar.gz SHA256SUMS | shasum -a 256 -c - <1>
 $ mkdir lc && tar -xzf lc_macos_aarch64.tar.gz -C lc
 $ sudo mv lc/* /usr/local/bin/
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ See https://github.com/rubyists/homebrew-tap for the formula itself.
 
 [source,sh]
 ----
-$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rubyists/linear-cli/main/install.sh | bash
+$ curl --retry 5 --retry-all-errors -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rubyists/linear-cli/main/install.sh | bash
 ----
 
 Detects your platform, downloads and checksum-verifies the matching release
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ specific install directory.
 
 [source,sh]
 ----
-$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rubyists/linear-cli/main/uninstall.sh | bash
+$ curl --retry 5 --retry-all-errors -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rubyists/linear-cli/main/uninstall.sh | bash
 ----
 
 Removes exactly what `install.sh` installed, by replaying the manifest it
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 0f4457a..cec9d5d 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -110,13 +110,19 @@ fetch_lc() {
 
     printf 'Downloading %s (%s)...\n' "$tarball" "$version" >&2
 
-    if ! curl -fsSL "$(release_url "$tarball")" -o "$tmp_dir/$tarball"
+    # --retry-all-errors: GitHub's release-download redirect chain
+    # occasionally drops the connection outright mid-stream (curl: (56)
+    # Connection died) - verified directly, reproduced it repeatedly, and
+    # confirmed plain --retry alone does NOT cover this specific error
+    # (it's outside curl's default retriable set), only succeeding once
+    # --retry-all-errors was added too.
+    if ! curl -fsSL --retry 5 --retry-all-errors "$(release_url "$tarball")" -o "$tmp_dir/$tarball"
     then
         printf 'error: failed to download %s\n' "$tarball" >&2
         exit 1
     fi
 
-    if ! curl -fsSL "$(release_url "SHA256SUMS")" -o "$tmp_dir/SHA256SUMS"
+    if ! curl -fsSL --retry 5 --retry-all-errors "$(release_url "SHA256SUMS")" -o "$tmp_dir/SHA256SUMS"
     then
         printf 'error: failed to download SHA256SUMS\n' >&2
         exit 1