How to run a binary executable file in linux terminal

Question

I have a executable file and when I double-click it, it works OK. but when I use terminal and type ./paraview it gives me this error message:

Segmentation fault(Core dumped)

How to run paraview in terminal?

Answer 1

Whatever is going on here is specific to this paraview program and not especially related to the Linux shell. I don't know exactly what you're double-clicking on, but it could be a shortcut that includes specific command-line arguments, a specific working directory, etc. It could also be that the way you're running a terminal causes it to have different environment variables set or something.

At any rate, a program shouldn't just crash by segfaulting when it's run in a way it doesn't expect, so this would definitely count as a bug in paraview.

Answer 2

To know more about what the program is doing and why failing you could use strace . based on your distro you could install it by using: apt-get install strace or yum install strace

Then give a try to this:

strace -f ./paraview

The option -f is to trace child processes, it will help to get more info and hopefully find the root cause of the problem.

Answer 3

The problem arises from some permission issues. You will notice that if you are in PATH_TO_PARAVIEW_DIR/bin , try

sudo PATH_TO_PARAVIEW_DIR/bin/paraview

This should work.