# How to properly install any application

**URL:** <https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-properly-install-any-application/17842>\
**Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\
**Created:** [March 10, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-properly-install-any-application/17842 "2025-03-10T18:25:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Artisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Artisto](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/Artisto)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-properly-install-any-application/17842/21 "2025-03-10T22:27:44Z")

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Thank you very kindly! I will indeed follow your advice!

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**Author:** ![iwalker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/iwalker/32/2599_2.png) [@iwalker](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/iwalker)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-properly-install-any-application/17842/22 "2025-03-11T07:07:32Z")

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And if you have Rocky 8 installed, you need to enable the epel repository first, which meant also copying the first command in the list of three dnf commands given.

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**Author:** ![jlehtone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jlehtone](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/jlehtone)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-properly-install-any-application/17842/23 "2025-03-11T08:12:43Z")

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> [@Artisto](#):
>
> ```auto
> [root@localhost Oscar]# root@rocky9:~# ls /home/
> Oscar
> bash: root@rocky9:~#: command not found
> bash: Oscar: command not found
> 
> ```

The `[root@localhost Oscar]# ` looks like a _shell prompt_. Do not type the prompt.  
The `root@rocky9:~# ` looks like a _shell prompt_. Do not type the prompt.

I guess that you had terminal open and it did show the prompt:

```auto
[root@localhost Oscar]# 

```

Then you did copy-paste to the prompt:

```plaintext
root@rocky9:~# ls /home/
Oscar

```

which is same as typing first:

```plaintext
root@rocky9:~# ls /home/

```

Where the shell sees “word” `root@rocky9:~#` (and some other words after it).  
Since `root@rocky9:~#` is not a known command, the shell says so:

```auto
bash: root@rocky9:~#: command not found

```

and then your copy paste “typed” a second “command”:

```auto
Oscar

```

Which is not a known command either. It looks like possible _output_ from command ls.

What you should have typed (or copy-pasted) is the

```auto
ls /home/

```

where the `ls` is a real command and the `/home/` is an option, argument for ls.

* * *

One can also do:

```auto
echo ~

```

and shell should expand the `~` into current users _homepath_.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/rockylinux/original/1X/91b7219eec10e30013422e4df76c1d898711a5d5.svg) [@system](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/how-to-properly-install-any-application/17842/24 "2025-05-10T08:12:56Z")

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