On Sunday, April 2, I installed from scatch on all new hardware. That installation failed to install net-tools
The whole installation "seemed" to go well, and on reboot the desktop interface worked well. While the installation properly used some networking during installation, afterwords I couldn't access anything beyond my computer, including apt-get install dctrl-tools So, while debugging, the following commands were missing route ifconfig During Debian installation, I hand configured partitions on a flashdrive and a hard-drive through the Debian installation prompts as first drive: / EFI second drive: /home /usr/local /var /tmp swap The first drive is actually a Kungaru 32 GB USB 3.0 flashdrive with read/write switch (I have yet to turn the Kunguru flashdrive switch to read-only). The second drive is a 1 TB internal SATA hard-drive. During Debian installation, I chose ssh server web server one other (probably email server) All my other Debian installation interactions were normal. To resolve this problem, I'll download "net-tools" on another computer, then on my new computer install dpkg -i net-tools I send this email because this is a Debian "stretch" installation problem that Debian ought to fix. Note: I am not subscribed to this email list [but this email is germane]. I will follow responses as they occur in the Debian email list archives.