Cannot open terminal

[c1ockwerk]

my buddy tried to add terminal to my dock last night and when i told him not to he put it on the desktop. I moved it back to Utilities\ but now when i goto open it, i get "You can't open the application "Terminal" because it is not supported on this architecture". What did he do? How can i fix it?

 

[BobZune]

my buddy tried to add terminal to my dock last night and when i told him not to he put it on the desktop. I moved it back to Utilities\ but now when i goto open it, i get "You can't open the application "Terminal" because it is not supported on this architecture". What did he do? How can i fix it?

Try doing a permissions repair on the hard drive and see if that fixes the problem. The repair might take a while (20-30 minutes in some cases).

 

[c1ockwerk]

nope didnt work. Is there a place to download the application from apple?

 

[superted666]

Not directly no.
However it will be on your OSX install disk, try searching the forums for how to install applications individually from the disk, might be a case of drag and drop but i have a feeling you may need a small 3rd party application to do it...

Ed

 

[c1ockwerk]

damn, ill have to try that tonight, if not off to the apple store see if they can do anything

 

[BobZune]

damn, ill have to try that tonight, if not off to the apple store see if they can do anything

You can use iTerm as a workaround. You can try Pacifist to extract Terminal app from the OS X install DVD and put it in /Applications/Utilities and do a permissions repair - that might get it working (I haven't tried).

 

[Nermal]

Are you on PowerPC or Intel? Have you run Monolingual recently?

 

[c1ockwerk]

i am on intel macbook pro and i have no idea what monolingual is. This is my first mac got it 2 weeks ago so im still learning what to do here.