terminal command not found

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terminal command not found

Hi. I am trying to create an El Capitan boot usb drive. The InstallMacOSX.pkg file in in my application folder on my iMac24. The usb drive is formatted and called OSX

When I run the line:

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/OSX --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ El\ Capitan.app --nointeraction

I am getting a response from terminal:

sudo: /Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia: command not found

I am not conversant with terminal and am using the above code from the apple support site. Clearly I have something wrong, but can any kind person please advise me what, and I have been looking at this code for an hour now and cannot see what the issue is

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iMac 24″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Feb 9, 2022 4:26 AM

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Niel

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Feb 10, 2022 6:10 AM in response to Alex in devon

Upgrade it to Snow Leopard and then use the El Capitan installer. Alternatively, use a newer Mac to create the thumbdrive, start up from it on the old one, and erase or repartition the internal drive.

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Feb 9, 2022 9:44 AM in response to Niel

Hi and thanks for your post.

We have actually now found the original CD's that came with the computer and have do an installation from those. We now have a Mac running Leopard so we just need to work out how to update from that to El Capitan

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Niel

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Feb 9, 2022 6:38 AM in response to Alex in devon

Double-click the installer package, go through the process, and then run the Terminal command.

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Feb 10, 2022 6:59 AM in response to Niel

Thanks Neil - exactly what I did. Now have a nice clean machine running emails and browser. very many thanks for your help and interest

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