Thank you to all that responded. Looks like I have some reading to do. You provided what I was looking for. Especially the site for learning the shell. I will let you know how it goes and if I have any more questions after studying up for a bit. Thank you again, Gabrielle.
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Roy <linuxcanuck@...> wrote:
>
> If it is just one command to launch an application for example you can press
> Alt+F2 and type the launching command. This is useful for terminal
> applications that open up in a window. However, if you type other commands
> or have lots of options and wildcards then you will want to open a terminal
> window and type in the terminal itself. You can usually get help by typing
> --help or -H after the command or get the manpage (manual) by typing man and
> then the command such as: man apt-get. It will give you help for apt-get.
> You can use it for any command.
>
> See: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/intro.1.html
> http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/cli.html
> http://linuxcommand.org/learning_the_shell.php
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Roy
>
> Using Kubuntu 11.04, 64-bit
> Location: Canada
>
>
> On 30 June 2011 20:33, Scott <scottro@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 02:00:00PM -0000, Gabrielle wrote:
> > > Greetings, I have the latest Ubuntu on a Toshiba Satellite L505 Laptop.
> > > I am now ready to go to the next step in learning the wonderful world of
> > Linux. I downloaded a program called "Kismet", which works like net
> > stumbler. So, when I downloaded it, it said it is accessed by the terminal.
> > It also does not show up in my regular applications. I see that I have an
> > icon for terminal and went there and tried typing in just kismet and I just
> > became confused. So, I need a "how to use terminal for dummies", I did go
> > through the files section first, with no success. Any suggestions of how to
> > learn how to input and use terminal applications in an easy to follow step
> > by step manner? Thank you, Gabrielle.
> > >
> >
> > I'm not sure how the latest Ubuntu's unity works, but as you guessed,
> > you open the terminal application.
> >
> > So....there you are at a command prompt. Now, typing kismet was a good
> > idea, and might have opened it. Unfortunately, apparently it didn't.
> > Many programs have some documents.
> >
> > Ahhh, even though this is for Ubuntu 7.04, it will probably work.
> >
> > http://www.twistedethics.com/2007/04/25/how-to-setup-kismet-in-ubuntu-704/
> >
> > See if that's useful.
> >
> > --
> > Scott Robbins
> > PGP keyID EB3467D6
> > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
> > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
> >
> > All: We can face anything.
> > Anya: Except for bunnies
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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