Ubuntu package appears to be missing files

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Greetings,

When following the install instructions and running the package for Ubuntu 22.04.5 it appears that the some of the dependencies are missing.

xxx@xxx:~$ sudo apt-get install fluent-bit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libflashrom1 libftdi1-2
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fluent-bit
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/51.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 123 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package fluent-bit.
(Reading database ... 164893 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../fluent-bit_4.0.0_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking fluent-bit (4.0.0) ...
Setting up fluent-bit (4.0.0) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.9) ...
Scanning processes...
Scanning linux images...

Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.

No services need to be restarted.

No containers need to be restarted.

No user sessions are running outdated binaries.

No VM guests are running outdated hypervisor (qemu) binaries on this host.
xxx@xxx:$ sudo systemctl start fluent-bit
xxx@xxx:$ sudo systemctl status fluent-bit
× fluent-bit.service - Fluent Bit
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/fluent-bit.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2025-04-09 07:06:41 EDT; 6s ago
Docs: https://docs.fluentbit.io/manual/
Process: 98273 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/fluent-bit/fluent-bit -c /etc/fluent-bit/fluent-bit.conf (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
Main PID: 98273 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
CPU: 1ms

Apr 09 07:06:41 xxx systemd[1]: fluent-bit.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Apr 09 07:06:41 xxx systemd[1]: Stopped Fluent Bit.
Apr 09 07:06:41 xxx systemd[1]: fluent-bit.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Apr 09 07:06:41 xxx systemd[1]: fluent-bit.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 09 07:06:41 xxx systemd[1]: Failed to start Fluent Bit.

some messages in the syslog file:
Apr 9 07:06:40 xxx systemd[98269]: fluent-bit.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/local/bin/fluent-bit/fluent-bit: No such file or directory
Apr 9 07:06:40 xxx systemd[98269]: fluent-bit.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/local/bin/fluent-bit/fluent-bit: No such file or directory
Apr 9 07:06:40 xxx systemd[1]: fluent-bit.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Apr 9 07:06:40 xxx systemd[1]: fluent-bit.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 9 07:06:40 xxx systemd[1]: fluent-bit.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1.
Apr 9 07:06:40 xxx systemd[98270]: fluent-bit.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/local/bin/fluent-bit/fluent-bit: No such file or directory
Apr 9 07:06:40 xxx systemd[98270]: fluent-bit.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/local/bin/fluent-bit/fluent-bit: No such file or directory
Apr 9 07:06:40 xxx systemd[1]: fluent-bit.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Apr 9 07:06:40 xxx systemd[1]: fluent-bit.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

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at this point I'm starting to think i'm doing something stupid lol