/vendor/autoload.php not present
 

generates an error in my apache log, and no pages are displaying. This is post install - the installer works fine.

How to i navigate around this? Autoload does not exist on my system. Do i really have to install composer and make a project in it in order to get sourcebans up and running? I have limited knowledge, but that was all i could deduct my option was, as googling tells me autoload is removed from php past 7.2, and i'm running the default 7.3 that comes with Debian 10.