diff --git a/cmd/install.go b/cmd/install.go
index 7b0ad47..e978c23 100644
--- a/cmd/install.go
+++ b/cmd/install.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 
 	"github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2"
@@ -82,7 +83,25 @@ func newInstall(installOpts installOpts, release string) (error, string) {
 		return nil, release
 	}
 	log.Info("attempting to install quarto version: ", release)
-	res, err := pipeline.DownloadReleaseVersion(release, runtime.GOOS, installOpts.progress)
+	osType := runtime.GOOS
+
+	// quarto has a specific custom version for rhel7/centos7 because
+	// of the old version of glibc so if on linux we need to also check
+	// what version to pull
+	if osType == "linux" {
+		// check if rhel7 system
+		if _, err := os.Stat("/etc/redhat-release"); err == nil {
+			releaseVersion, err := os.ReadFile("/etc/redhat-release")
+			if err != nil {
+				return err, ""
+			}
+			if strings.Contains(string(releaseVersion), "release 7") {
+				osType = "rhel7"
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	res, err := pipeline.DownloadReleaseVersion(release, osType, installOpts.progress)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err, ""
 	}
diff --git a/internal/gh/assets.go b/internal/gh/assets.go
index 94cc753..5e03009 100644
--- a/internal/gh/assets.go
+++ b/internal/gh/assets.go
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ func getOsAssetSuffix(os string) osAssetSuffix {
 		return macos
 	case "windows":
 		return win
+	case "rhel7":
+		return rhel7
 	default:
 		return unknown
 	}
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ const (
 	linuxamd64
 	macos
 	win
+	rhel7
 )
 
 func (o osAssetSuffix) String() string {
@@ -45,6 +48,8 @@ func (o osAssetSuffix) String() string {
 		return "macos.tar.gz"
 	case win:
 		return "win.zip"
+	case rhel7:
+		return "linux-rhel7-amd64.tar.gz"
 	default:
 		return "unknown"
 	}
@@ -78,10 +83,10 @@ func (wc *WriteCounter) Write(p []byte) (int, error) {
 // targetOs should be "windows", "darwin", "linux"
 func DownloadReleaseAsset(client *github.Client, tag string, targetOs string, progress bool) (string, error) {
 	switch targetOs {
-	case "windows", "darwin", "linux":
+	case "windows", "darwin", "linux", "rhel7":
 		break
 	default:
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("invalid target os: %s, must be one of linux,darwin,windows", targetOs)
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("invalid target os: %s, must be one of linux,darwin,windows,rhel7", targetOs)
 	}
 	release, err := GetRelease(client, tag)
 	if err != nil {