Debian 12 ISO no longer includes NTP client?

[cacesl-ih]

The Debian 10 3CX ISO (3CX v18) included systemd-timesyncd as the NTP client. However, a fresh install using the Debian 12 3CX ISO (3CX v20) yields an installation without any NTP client, from what I can tell. Further, I can't find any NTP client in 3CX's Debian 12 mirror -- neither systemd-timesyncd nor any of the other common NTP clients (e.g. chrony, ntpsec).

Am I mistaken, or is there truly no NTP client in the Debian 12 3CX ISO? If the latter, was this an oversight, or was this by design?

 

[SweetAction]

3CX docs say to run apt install ntp - does this not work anymore?

 

[cacesl-ih]

Thank you for confirming. Turns out it was probably user error. I initially tried `apt install ntp`, but I was getting an error that the package couldn't be located. It appears that the problem was that there was no local package cache for some reason. After running `apt update`, the NTP-related packages are available.