Debian 10 Installation Issues

I’m having some issues getting through the provided documentation on getting MineOS on Debian. I’ve gotten through the node.js instructions fine but on the additional dependencies I’m getting errors. I’m logged in as root in the terminal and I’m not sure what I’m missing.

Output of terminal:

root@IronGiant01:/home/gabe# apt -y install git rdiff-backup screen rsync
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package rsync is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Unable to locate package rdiff-backup
E: Package ‘rsync’ has no installation candidate
root@IronGiant01:/home/gabe# apt -y install build-essential
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package build-essential is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package ‘build-essential’ has no installation candidate

Trying to move past them results in further issues so I’m assuming I messed up something and any help is appreciated.

try to run apt-get update and then run apt -y install git rdiff-backup screen rsync

If it still fails then what Debian release are you using? lsb_release -a

and you may also want to check sources list in
/etc/apt/source.list

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I figured it out with your suggestions, thank you! I needed to update the sources.list with the following and then run the two commands you suggested and then all the steps worked fine:

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
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