Newbie user of Ubuntu. When you click on something and it says this is an executable file, it gives you several choices: Run in Terminal, Display, Cancel, Run What does Run in Terminal mean? Does it mean something like run as admin in Windows?
run in terminal simply means running the program in a terminal. its normally used for installing programs using the commandline.
So Terminal in Linux is equal to MS-DOS in Windows. Correct? Are root and super user the exactly same thing?
In two words, no. MS-DOS in Windows (modern ones, NT) is not longer an operating system, more sort of a wrapper for a few system commands. In Linux, the shell can do everything. Run in terminal means you will see the execution, the errors, messages etc. Useful when you want to know exactly what is happening. This is compared to double-clicking and running things where execution messages will be hidden from your eyes. Thus is something goes wrong, you might not know what went wrong and will have to go through logs. Personally, I suggest running .deb files with double-click and scripts executing manually from the terminal. Mrk
Hi Masterton, A Terminal window, means you get a command line prompt, and if the executable is in one of the directories in your $PATH variable (which is a list of executable directories searched to find the executable from anywhere you might have navigated to in your file system) of the account you are logged into, then you can issue the command, find it, and it will be run if you have permission to execute it. In essence, a Terminal window is a Command Line window for issuing commands, i.e. the Command line interpreter is the Shell which runs the commands. -- Tom
