both the mac os x and linux installers will go into an infinite loop if ~/bin doesn't exist.

/home/robd/bin does not exist!
Create it? [yn] read: 70: arg count
Where would you like to install the Vendetta executable? [/home/robd/bin] read: 70: arg count
/home/robd/bin does not exist!

Last time this cropped up, it was due to the wonky not-quite-bash that Ubuntu uses (I think it's called dash), wasn't it?

roguelazer: Yeah, dash's built-in "read" doesn't accept the same arguments for some reason. I'll fix that whenever we release new installers.

But the OS X version doesn't even have an "installer"; you just pull the game out of a .dmg and run it.

try this to get it installalled:

sh torrents/vendetta-linux-ia32-installer.sh --target ven_inst --keep --noexec
cd ven_inst
bash setup.sh

you can delete ven_inst after that.

edit: oups i guess you got it installed. you could have done that to get it installed!