rsync: command not found

[jomoengineer]

Hi,

I'm going through the Software Setup for the JetBot and at under Section 5 step 5 it mentions to run rsync to replace the old notebooks but I am getting an error that rsync is not found

This is with image: jetbot_image_v0p3p0.zip

Ex:

$ rsync jetbot/notebooks ~/Notebooks

Thanks,

Jon
-bash: rsync: command not found

[jaybdub]

Hi Jomoengineer,

Thanks for reaching out! Sorry, we forgot to include one step in the software setup, which is to install the rsync command.

You should be able to install it by calling

sudo apt-get install rsync

From a terminal. Please let me know if you run into any issues, and thanks for pointing this out!

Best,
John

[idcrook]

I created a wiki "patch" for this issue, which I encountered independently: #48

[jomoengineer]

Hi Jomoengineer,

Thanks for reaching out! Sorry, we forgot to include one step in the software setup, which is to install the rsync command.

You should be able to install it by calling

sudo apt-get install rsync

From a terminal. Please let me know if you run into any issues, and thanks for pointing this out!

Best,
John

John,

No worries.

Yes, that is what I ended up doing.

Thanks,

Jon

[jomoengineer]

I created a wiki "patch" for this issue, which I encountered independently: #48

Okay, thanks.

Would it be worth adding 'sudo apt-get update' before running the install of rsync and/or make reference to if rsync is not installed then run the apt-get install?

Cheers,

Jon

[idcrook]

It shouldn't hurt to do an update first. the following one-liner does it simply:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y rsync

[jomoengineer]

One other note regarding rsync. I notice when running this as listed does not update the existing ~/Notebooks files. To get it to update the files I had to run the following:

$ rsync -rv   jetbot/notebooks/* /home/jetbot/Notebooks/