diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
index b7104f759..cad6821e4 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -773,6 +773,10 @@ main() {
   check_airgap
   echo "Found that Security Onion $INSTALLEDVERSION is currently installed."
   echo ""
+  echo ""
+  echo "Verifying we have the latest soup script."
+  verify_latest_update_script
+  echo ""
   set_os
   set_palette
   check_elastic_license
@@ -787,10 +791,6 @@ main() {
     clone_to_tmp
   fi
   check_os_updates
-  echo ""
-  echo "Verifying we have the latest soup script."
-  verify_latest_update_script
-  echo ""
 
   echo "Generating new repo archive"
   generate_and_clean_tarballs