Thank you very kindly! I will indeed follow your advice!
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.
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:
[root@localhost Oscar]#
Then you did copy-paste to the prompt:
root@rocky9:~# ls /home/
Oscar
which is same as typing first:
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:
bash: root@rocky9:~#: command not found
and then your copy paste “typed” a second “command”:
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
ls /home/
where the ls is a real command and the /home/ is an option, argument for ls.
One can also do:
echo ~
and shell should expand the ~ into current users homepath.
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