Hello All,

I have downloaded the Vendetta installer and am trying to install it. On the download page it says "To install Vendetta, type sh ./vendetta-linux-x-installer.sh. You do not need to be root; install it under your usual account."

I do as it says and the installer verifies and uncompresses then I get the following error in an (apparently) endless loop:

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

I am getting this behavior on two computers both running Ubuntu 6.10. I have tried pressing the y key and even holding it down as the error just keeps repeating. I have looked through the archives of this board and tried google but no luck.

Anyone have any ideas?

dunno maybe try... mkdir /home/glen/bin

EDIT: wow .. got the same thing on ubuntu feisty now.

it's because /bin/sh points to dash in newer ubuntu.

it doesn't support REPLY to get the input of read...

Doh! I should have thought of that.

mkdir /home/glen/bin worked. Thanks a ton.

Ugh. So now ubuntu's /bin/sh doesn't do read properly? Hm. Does changing it to 'read REPLY' work? (I think you can extract the makeself archive with some commandline option...)

yeah that'd work

First you must create the directory bin in your home, later you will be able to install the game without problems.

The installation game is by defect in /home/user/.vendetta

sorry my english hehehe

greatings

FYI, Ubuntu's position is that you're using a feature of bash, not sh. Cedega had this problem too and had to fix it on their end.

Me, I just want it to work :)

Oh yeah, here's a more helpful follow up to my less helpful previous post.

The Ubuntu workaround is

sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

Select No at the prompt, and bash will be your default shell again. After installing the game, you may want to re-enable dash with the same command, selecting Yes.