Clarification needed for access to package versions in repositories

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2024-03-30 at 05:19 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> 1) I copied and pasted the line you gave me into the terminal but the
> result was "No such file or directory."   :o(
> 
>  [...]
> 
> So, I am wondering why, on two installations of Linux Mint 21.3, whilst 
> I can get a response to
>   cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
> the other person gets the error message shown; is it that the Cinnamon 
> version would store the list of official package sources, differently to 
> the Mate version, or, would the Cinnamon version not include the cat 
> utility in its base installation?

Hi,

guessing doesn't help.

FWIW both are from your email:

> cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-packages-repositories.list
> cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list

If you ask a user to run

$ ls -hAltr

and the user replies that this doesn't list a directory, but instead a
steam locomotive does run, then the user probably didn't run

$ ls -hAltr

but

$ sl -hAltr

https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/sl

It's more useful to see a copied and pasted command together with its
output.