I am using Ubuntu 18.04 but I cannot open the terminal. when i want to open the terminal i face a notification that is given below . please help me I cannot install any other apps
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1What terminal application are you trying to open? What notification appears? Are you able to open another terminal emulator program?– FourOhFourJun 3, 2018 at 17:24
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1Did you try ctrl+alt+t?– Josef KlimukJun 6, 2018 at 16:22
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related: askubuntu.com/questions/780626/terminal-wont-lauch-ubuntu-16-04/…– NmathAug 19, 2020 at 18:29
4 Answers
I solve this problem by installing xterm from software, and running /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
. This gave me an error I hadn't seen before, which was that my python installation was not as expected. I fixed the python installation and everything works again.
The python issue was that I was trying to use a python version manager, but gnome-terminal was looking for the binary python3 in /usr/bin
. I had disabled that binary by renaming it to old_python3
. I renamed it again to python3
and everything worked.
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1Perhaps complete your answer by adding information about how you fixed the python installation in the event others face the same issue?– grahamAug 27, 2018 at 16:03
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I am also facing the same problem after installing
python 3.7.0
. @steel, Could you explain a bit more --A binary I had moved
. Which binary had you moved from which location to which location and also which binary?– testuserSep 15, 2018 at 10:12 -
1@Johir I added the details to the answer, but it was specifically looking for the
python3
binary.– steelSep 15, 2018 at 13:15
It might be possible that terminal is missing from your system for some reason. You can check that by checking out
/bin/gnome-terminal
You can install it using ubuntu software center. Open the software center and type "terminal" and then install it.
I found the solution for me was to follow the steps from the link below but changing the python version to the 3.6 in my case.
- Try to update your locale
- Try to change your environment variables or reset them to their default values.
- Or just restarting your PC sometimes help
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! What do you mean by "update your locale"? How would that help? How does changing or resetting environment variables help? Which variable should be reset?– DanJan 9, 2023 at 16:33