Regarding Repositories

Hello, I just wonder if I have this right...
Having installed Buster from the downloads section, I want to install some probing routines which come as a .zip file.
Back when I had Wheezy installed, I recall there was an unzip program already there.
I cannot find the same thing in this version of Buster and I cannot seem to be able to get a decompression program to be able to unzip the files I have to commence their install.
Are the repositories limited to keep from bloating the OS?
I feel somewhat embarrassed by this but for the life of me I cannot get these files unzipped, nor am I making any headway with my research to do so...
A sudo apt update followed by apt install unzip doesn't do much for me... Is it a repository thing given the image installed??

Thanks.
 

try:  sudo apt install unzip

ref: packages.debian.org/buster/unzip

sudo apt install unzip gave me unable to locate package unzip.

How do I steer this towards:
packages.debian.org/buster/unzip
??

By the way Rod, IIRC you're in Australia??
I'm up here in Cairns...

Nitram wrote:

By the way Rod, IIRC you're in Australia??
I'm up here in Cairns...

Ahh, another Queenslander! I am in Brisbane. I lived in Atherton  for about 12 months back in 1990.

Its odd that that did not work. what if you try zip instead?

Will they untar?

I guess the other way would be  to unzip on another pc an copy to usb stick.

Thanks Rod, I've just unzipped on a PC and will try that...

Still unsure why I cannot get access to any other decompression software out there via this Buster image from the downloads section...
Again, when I had Wheezy it would do it natively, but again, I ma wondering whether the buster image was kept lean? In which case I wonder how I can ultimately get other programs onto this PC then??

I just need a little background on the process and wonder whether the repositories are limited?

I was in Atherton just last weekend and I don't think too much would have changed since 1990!!!

I probably would not tamper too much but the file containing the lit of repositories is in
/etc/apt/sources.list

This random link might help
computingforgeeks.com/add-debian-10-bust...ies-to-sources-list/

Thanks Rod.
I'll check further tommorow.

Cheers again from Mareeba!

Nitram wrote:

Thanks Rod.
I'll check further tommorow.

Cheers again from Mareeba!

Doesn't that mean you live in a seperate country up there in FNQ?  

Given the culture and the vibe up here... ALMOST CERTAINLY

Southerners from Melb and Syd think Brisbane is quite a ways north, but don't understand that Cairns/Mareeba/Atherton is still some 1800km further north, and about another 1000km up to the tip!

I have family in Europe and it is almost impossible for them to fathom that those distances and places are even in the same country, let alone the same state!!

So I completely concur, I recon FNQ is pretty much a whole 'nuther country hehehe