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I had posted on the Debian site that Rsync is missing from the installation but exists in the live version of Debian 12.2 https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=786604&hilit=rsync#p786604.

This problem still exists on the latest release of Debian 12.6 ,debian-live-12.6.0-amd64-xfce.iso,sha256 4861f657d28dfef1b097a4c5ea8bb7b3c49acaa13ea9c3f5dd2e439a3adadb30

Can any suggest why the rsync command is still missing ?
 


The rsync package is available in debian. You can find out about available packages here:

Debian -- Packages

www.debian.org
One enters the package name and the distribution in the dialog boxes to get the search results.

If a particular package is not in any specific .iso file that debian releases, that's a decision made by the maintainers but doesn't reflect on the availability of packages of course. If the user wishes to install the package it's a relatively simple matter for them to do that :)
 
johnlinux said:
Can any suggest why the rsync command is still missing ?
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AS others in that Debian topic have already stated, you have to install it yourself because it's not part of the base install. Surely you should know how to do that if you are using Debian?
Code: 
sudo apt install rsync
 
it is also available in the Synaptic manager
 
None of you think it is strange that the live version of Devian 12.6 has Rsync available but when you install Debian 12.6 it does not install Rsync you must manually install it?
 
No I do not, one of the reason there are over 500 different Linux distributions is, there are as many different teams and individuals compiling them, each will have its own idea of what they need or dont need in the ISO, anything extra in most cases can be added from the repositories.
Linux is about choice for the user.
 
johnlinux said:
None of you think it is strange that the live version of Devian 12.6 has Rsync available but when you install Debian 12.6 it does not install Rsync you must manually install it?
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No not actually - every distribution has some of the same software and packages while others do not, that is up to the developers as to what goes in the OS and what does not - all one has to do is install what is not there - like the difference between Debian Testing and Kali Linux - Kali is based on Debian Testing the main difference is the fact that Kali includes all the hacking software where Debian does not - but on Debian you can install those apps separately and now you basically have Kali - it's just Kali did it for you so you do not have to
 
Well Debian 12.6 has a package list file called debian-live-12.6.0-amd64-standard.iso.packages, SHA256:7dca31712361f0355428c195eb52013f14576ea870b34bf3841e20c9d1f3a2cf

This file shows that rsync 3.2.7-1 should be installed or does this file represent something else?
 
@johnlinux is right on the money there - I have just checked at distrowatch with the package list there, most recently updated 11 July, and the package is there...so it should have beein installed.

OP you have not said yet whether you actually manually installed rsync.

Have you done so?

If not, can you provide the output of

Code: 
apt policy rsync

please.

Other than that, I cannot suggest other than waiting on the Debian people for an outcome.

Friday here in Oz so

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If you have Synaptic Package Manager installed you can check for your rsync file there open the search block and type in rsync
here is mine below - if it is not there right click it and select mark for installation and click apply
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