diff --git a/LibreNMS/Util/Laravel.php b/LibreNMS/Util/Laravel.php
index 21e393d930..9a5055e1b4 100644
--- a/LibreNMS/Util/Laravel.php
+++ b/LibreNMS/Util/Laravel.php
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ class Laravel
 
     public static function isBooted()
     {
-        return !empty(app()->isAlias('Illuminate\Foundation\Application')) && app()->isBooted();
+        return function_exists('app') && !empty(app()->isAlias('Illuminate\Foundation\Application')) && app()->isBooted();
     }
 
     public static function enableQueryDebug()
diff --git a/LibreNMS/Validations/Dependencies.php b/LibreNMS/Validations/Dependencies.php
index ad68658619..89921cb98a 100644
--- a/LibreNMS/Validations/Dependencies.php
+++ b/LibreNMS/Validations/Dependencies.php
@@ -68,13 +68,13 @@ class Dependencies extends BaseValidation
         $dep_check = shell_exec($validator->getBaseDir() . '/scripts/composer_wrapper.php install --no-dev --dry-run');
         preg_match_all('/Installing ([^ ]+\/[^ ]+) \(/', $dep_check, $dep_missing);
         if (!empty($dep_missing[0])) {
-            $result = ValidationResult::fail("Missing dependencies!", "composer install --no-dev");
+            $result = ValidationResult::fail("Missing dependencies!", $validator->getBaseDir() . '/scripts/composer_wrapper.php install --no-dev');
             $result->setList("Dependencies", $dep_missing[1]);
             $validator->result($result);
         }
         preg_match_all('/Updating ([^ ]+\/[^ ]+) \(/', $dep_check, $dep_outdated);
         if (!empty($dep_outdated[0])) {
-            $result = ValidationResult::fail("Outdated dependencies", "composer install --no-dev");
+            $result = ValidationResult::fail("Outdated dependencies", $validator->getBaseDir() . '/scripts/composer_wrapper.php install --no-dev');
             $result->setList("Dependencies", $dep_outdated[1]);
         }
 
diff --git a/validate.php b/validate.php
index b841cf69ca..546245e1fe 100755
--- a/validate.php
+++ b/validate.php
@@ -106,20 +106,6 @@ if (!file_exists('vendor/autoload.php')) {
 // init autoloading
 require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
 
-
-$dep_check = shell_exec('php scripts/composer_wrapper.php install --no-dev --dry-run');
-preg_match_all('/Installing ([^ ]+\/[^ ]+) \(/', $dep_check, $dep_missing);
-if (!empty($dep_missing[0])) {
-    print_fail("Missing dependencies!", "./scripts/composer_wrapper.php install --no-dev");
-    $pre_checks_failed = true;
-    print_list($dep_missing[1], "\t %s\n");
-}
-preg_match_all('/Updating ([^ ]+\/[^ ]+) \(/', $dep_check, $dep_outdated);
-if (!empty($dep_outdated[0])) {
-    print_fail("Outdated dependencies", "./scripts/composer_wrapper.php install --no-dev");
-    print_list($dep_outdated[1], "\t %s\n");
-}
-
 $validator = new Validator();
 $validator->validate(array('dependencies'));
 if ($validator->getGroupStatus('dependencies') == ValidationResult::FAILURE) {