rsync on Windows 10/Debian: Unable to locate package

[bbiney1]

I need to backup a large amount of files and I wanted to use rsync on my personal windows 10 machine, like I've been doing so on my mac OS at work. I found that the only way you can do that is by getting the windows subsytem for linux set up.

I followed instructions here on setting up a Windows Subsystem for Linux - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... tall-win10

I followed the instructions here to manually install Debian (I think it's version 9 stretch) on my windows 10 machine. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... all-manual

to initialize the distribution, I used the following command

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sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

I was following this tutorial on how to get rsync going on windows 10 https://thedatafrog.com/en/backup-rsync-windows-wsl/

The tutorial asks you to use the following command

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sudo apt install rsync openssh-client

However, that leads to the following print statements

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package rysnc

And I've really been stuck with this. My question is essentially the same as the one in this thread, however this user had Debian version 7 and they have a lot of modifications to their sources.list file that I don't have and I don't think I quite need to make them, I'm not sure which ones to do. - viewtopic.php?f=30&t=119779

I assume I'm not the only windows 10 user that will need to use rsync, and the thread I linked just now is pretty old so I hope a solution can get posted here that can be of use for everyone. I just haven't found a solution yet.
Granted I have not restarted my computer since intializing the distribution (though none of the links I included prompted me to do so)

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Did you install this version?

Try

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sudo apt edit-sources

Then add some sources, update the package database and apt install rsync again.

I've used WSL with Debian briefly and it all seemed to work but I've long since broken that Win10 system so I can't really help directly.

[bbiney1]

Did you install this version?

Try

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sudo apt edit-sources

Then add some sources, update the package database and apt install rsync again.

I've used WSL with Debian briefly and it all seemed to work but I've long since broken that Win10 system so I can't really help directly.

I followed instructions her, albeit the command you gave me just takes me to the /etc/source.list file like shown here. - https://www.tecmint.com/fix-unable-to-l ... -debian-9/
Currently these are the contents of my source.list file

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deb https://deb.debian.org/debian  stretch main
]deb https://deb.debian.org/debian  stretch-updates main
]deb https://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main
deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main

I ran apt update but still I get the error shown in the original post

[Head_on_a_Stick]

I ran apt update

Please post the full output from that command.

EDIT: I am presuming that your sources.list doesn't have square close brackets at the start of the second and third lines.

EDIT2: is the apt-transport-https package installed? If not then change "https" to "http".

EDIT3: and your posted output in the OP says that you asked for "rysnc" instead "rsync".