Please tell me how to execute python file in Ubuntu by double clicking on file. (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:01 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Steve D'Aprano
> <steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Remember the context here: we're replying to a thread discussing somebody
>> who is running Ubuntu with a GUI desktop environment. Of course there are
>> *some* Linux systems which don't run a GUI at all, but you can't
>> double-click on files on such systems, and they aren't Ubuntu, so they
>> aren't relevant.
> 
> Been a long time since I had an Ubuntu, but is it really the case that
> you can't install Ubuntu without a GUI?

I mispoke -- I meant something like "they aren't whatever Ububtu GUI the OP
has installed".

There is, apparently, headless Ubuntu, but it isn't clear to me whether they
install X (or Mir, Wayland or some other alternative) or not. E.g. this:

https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/ubuntu-gnome-vnc-headless-server/

seems to suggest to me that X.org is already installed, I can see X utils
being installed as a recommended package but I couldn't spot X being added as
a dependency. So my *guess* is that even headless Ubuntu server includes an X
server. (Or possibly Mir.)



-- 
Steve
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