KOTC Posted December 17, 2012 Report Posted December 17, 2012 http://www.wikihow.com/Open-Applications-Using-Terminal-on-Mac hope this will help you out
JAPAN Posted December 17, 2012 Report Posted December 17, 2012 [list] [*]1 Download the .tar file to a general directory. [*]2 Open a terminal window. The terminal application will be found under Utilities in the main Application window. [*]3 Unpack the archived software file. If the file has the .gz extension first type: "gunzip program.tar.gz". Then type "tar -xvf units-1.74.tar". [*]4 Move into the extracted software directory. cd program [*]5 Read the README and INSTALL files for software specific information less README less INSTALL [*]6 Configure the software to fit your operating system. ./configure [/list][list] [*]7 Build the software package. make [*]8 Check the software build. make check [*]9 Install the software. make install [/list]
JAPAN Posted December 17, 2012 Report Posted December 17, 2012 if the file ends with rpm rpm -ivh <package name> to install rpm -qa <p.n> or rpm -q to check intallation recently yum was also introduced............ try it yum install <p.n>
JAPAN Posted December 17, 2012 Report Posted December 17, 2012 [quote name='KOTC' timestamp='1355769509' post='1302966832'] [url="http://www.wikihow.com/Open-Applications-Using-Terminal-on-Mac"]http://www.wikihow.c...Terminal-on-Mac[/url] hope this will help you out [/quote] deeni kosame chustunna............nice one good post
kissan Posted December 17, 2012 Author Report Posted December 17, 2012 thanks all but "open -a <application_name>" launches GUI. The whole purpose of running from terminal is not to use GUI. Moreover, I'm not admin.. so application is not in Applications folder but on Desktop.
Chimidi_Mukku Posted December 17, 2012 Report Posted December 17, 2012 [quote name='kissan' timestamp='1355770515' post='1302966982'] thanks all but "open -a <application_name>" launches GUI. The whole purpose of running from terminal is not to use GUI. Moreover, I'm not admin.. so application is not in Applications folder but on Desktop. [/quote] Does the Application support command line interface ? Not all applications provide CLI and GUI support.
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