Getting error when I type "scylla" on terminal

ScyllaDB
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Installation details:
curl -sSf get.scylladb.com/server | sudo bash ( run this script to install)
#ScyllaDB version: 2025.2.0-0.20250625.33e947e75342
#Cluster size:
os (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu/AWS AMI): Ubuntu (Oracle VPS)

ubuntu@development:~$ scylla 
INFO  2025-07-01 03:49:34,281 seastar - Reactor backend: linux-aio
INFO  2025-07-01 03:49:34,392 [shard 0:main] seastar - updated: blocked-reactor-notify-ms=36000000000
INFO  2025-07-01 03:49:34,392 [shard 2:main] seastar - updated: blocked-reactor-notify-ms=36000000000
INFO  2025-07-01 03:49:34,392 [shard 1:main] seastar - updated: blocked-reactor-notify-ms=36000000000
INFO  2025-07-01 03:49:34,392 [shard 3:main] seastar - updated: blocked-reactor-notify-ms=36000000000
ERROR 2025-07-01 03:49:34,398 [shard 0:main] init - Could not read configuration file conf/scylla.yaml: std::invalid_argument (Could not open file at conf/scylla.yaml. Make sure it exists)
ERROR 2025-07-01 03:49:34,399 [shard 0:main] init - Startup failed: std::invalid_argument (Could not open file at conf/scylla.yaml. Make sure it exists)

I dont know in which location it is asking for conf folder.
how can I fix this issue?

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You should start ScyllaDB with systemctl start scylla-server.

If you just want to play around with ScyllaDB on a development machine, you can start it with something like scylla -c2 -m2G --developer-mode=1 --options-file=/path/to/scylla.yaml.
You can just create an empty yaml file with touch scylla.yaml.

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