I'm on Ubuntu Edgy 6.10
My first attempt at sh resulted in a loop of not being able to find or create /<user>/bin so I killed it, made the dir myself and then tried again. everything worked out fine.
Now I tried to start it up and get nothing.

~/bin$ vendetta
bash: vendetta: command not found

I can dir and see the file "vendetta" but still get command not found.
I also tried opening it up with naut and just telling it to "open" and got nothing.

Any ideas?

Edit: Ok, apparently my gtk was busted and needed to be kicked. I still get command not found from a terminal, but I can boot it up from the gui icon. woot.

you would have to do:

~/bin$ ./vendetta

This implies "the one in this directory". By just typing "vendetta" you are saying "the one in my $PATH" and since /home/<user>/bin is not in your path then it is not found.

But anyway it sounds like you figured out how to get it to run. Thought you might want to know the reason it wasnt working :)

if you want to be able to use the command normally, you can just symlink it to a directory in the path. $ ln -s /home/user/bin/vendetta /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin or whatever

echo "export PATH=$PATH:/home/$USER/bin" >> /etc/profile
don't make symlinks, that's not how you do it.

I just copied it into /usr/local/bin/ :P