I have just installed and when i run vendetta, this is what I get:

Patching version vendetta-1.7.14.2 to vendetta-1.7.27...
can't open manual/images/icons/homing2.jpg! aborting!

does anyone know what I should do? I am rather new to linux.

Did you install the game as root, and run it as a regular user account by chance? Look at the .vendetta directory in your home directory and make sure you have permission to change stuff there.

I cannot creat a file in the "home" directory, there is a folder in there named jerry (my username) and the installer was in there. I can create files in that dir

when I installed i started the command with "sudo", which I take it means I installed it as root.

"home directory" refers to that /home/jerry/ directory

Don't use sudo to install the game it doesn't need that. You'll probably have to do a "sudo chown -R jerry ~/.vendetta/" to fix that. ~ is a shortcut for /home/jerry/

Or just delete /home/jerry/.vendetta/ and reinstall without sudo.

there is no /jerry/vendetta folder. the vendetta executable file is in jerry/bin

(pardon me, I'm new to linux. I think I need a book on bash)

I installed as jerry, not root, and it gave me this whe i tried to patch:

"Patching version vendetta-1.7.14.2 to vendetta-1.7.27...
can't open manual/images/icons/homing2.jpg! aborting!"

I see that there is a .vendetta folder but I can't see it in the file browser, so I guess I dont have permissions on it as jerry, so i tried:
jerry@jerry-desktop:~$ sudo chown -R jerry /jerry/.vendetta
chown: cannot access `/jerry/.vendetta': No such file or directory

any ideas?

try
sudo chown -R jerry /home/jerry/.vendetta

files or directories with a dot infront of them are hidden. Your filemanager should have an option to display them anyway

Thank you all so much! It works. Now to setup an account!