So I installed the game, but i dont know how to run it, if i double click on it i get an error that says cannot open folder (obviously since it is not) and if i type vendetta terminal says command not found, any solutions here?

In the Properties dialog of bin/vendetta tick off Permissions->Execute or do a chmod +x ~/bin/vendetta in your terminal. Then you should be able to double click on the game to run it. Somehow the latest installer doesn't make the program executable anymore.

To run it form a terminal enter ~/bin/vendetta. You still have to make it execuable first for though.

I'm having a similar problem except that the file is set to be executable and I receive the error '"Couldn't display "/home/USERNAME/bin/vendetta". There is no appication installed for this file type' Any suggestions?

Type `~/bin/vendetta` from a terminal, then. What is it with you people and your silly GUIs...

This is how to do it in the terminal:
cd bin
chmod 777 vendetta
./vendetta

I had no problems with the gui... be sure you set the work path to the vendetta directory....

I have found if its not installed in home/me/bin it wont work at all on Ubuntu 8.10 but if its there is fine

Wow, I never knew Vendetta was that hard on ubuntu.

If I were the one giving advice (which may not be the best idea in the world), I would suggest that you switch to Sabayon. Not only is it relatively easy to get the hang of (especially considering that it's based on gentoo), it manages to still be linux! (I'm looking at you, ubuntu)

For me, installing Vendetta went like this: "emerge vendetta-online-bin". That's right, it's actually in the package manager. After making sure I was part of the games group, Vendetta ran just like any other application - from my K menu.

*Disclaimer* I have been completely anti-ubuntu ever since it made me restart the computer just to change some graphics settings. This is linux - the word "restart" is not even part of our regular vocabulary!

How do uninstall Vendetta. I cannot seem to locate the uninstaller for the game. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ok guys, I'm missing something here. I just had to reinstall VO on Ubuntu 8.10 since 8.04 crapped out on me. I tried, or at least think I tried to follow the directions recommended here. Below are my terminal print outs and error message

tom@tom-desktop:~$ vendetta
bash: /home/tom/bin/vendetta: Permission denied
tom@tom-desktop:~$ sudo vendetta
[sudo] password for tom:
sudo: vendetta: command not found
tom@tom-desktop:~$ chmod +x ~/bin/vendetta
tom@tom-desktop:~$ vendetta
bash: /home/tom/bin/vendetta: cannot execute binary file
tom@tom-desktop:~$ cd bin
tom@tom-desktop:~/bin$ chmod 777 vendetta
tom@tom-desktop:~/bin$ ./vendetta
bash: ./vendetta: cannot execute binary file
tom@tom-desktop:~/bin$ vendetta
bash: /home/tom/bin/vendetta: cannot execute binary file
tom@tom-desktop:~/bin$ cd
tom@tom-desktop:~$ cd bin
tom@tom-desktop:~/bin$ dir
vendetta
tom@tom-desktop:~/bin$ vendetta
bash: /home/tom/bin/vendetta: cannot execute binary file
tom@tom-desktop:~/bin$

If I try to run from the home directory, I get:
Could not display "/home/tom/.vendetta/vendetta".
There is no application installed for this file type.

Also, if I try to run it from the /bin folder, it creates a error file thingy. I copied this one from the .vendetta folder after trying the chmod +x thing there.

file:///home/tom/.vendetta/%01ВA@%80%C1,@8
(underneath, but didn't copy across it says "invalid encoding")

FistOfRage: Did you install the 64bit version on a 32bit os or the other way around?

gjones25: Delete bin/vendetta and .vendetta in your home directory. You may have to tell your file manager to show hidden files to see .vendetta. Just punching "rm -rf ~/bin/vendetta ~/.vendetta/" into a terminal should do it.

I installed the 64 bit version on amd anthlonTM 64x2. Below is the file I used to install VO

/home/tom/Desktop/vendetta-linux-amd64-installer.sh

...and are you also using the 64bit version of ubuntu? uname -a should tell you.

tom@tom-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux tom-desktop 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:39 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
tom@tom-desktop:~$

I'm thinking not. When I originally dl the installer, I did not bother to scroll down past the 'download now' button, and completely missed the 32 vs 64 bit selection that was below my screen.

Lets try this again...

Thanks mr_spuck! I would have spent weeks trying all manner of arcane methods to fix this.

Edit: Yep, that got it. Thanks again!

rockin!

I installed it but nothing shows up in my bin directory "/home/timburke/bin . I'm running the 64 bit version of Ubuntu, does that matter? I didn't get any errors when installing I just can't find the program. I tried it twice, the second time I put the file in the directory that I created. I'm fairly new to linux.

nevermind

To make sure thinks are ok, check this:

uname -m
file ~/.vendetta/vendetta

After you got the proper architecture installer, and installation works, a more interesting way to former "mousepushers" is to use the Menu Editor and add an entry for Vendetta.

Remember to prefer running the updater instead ob vendetta binary, it is update.rlb.

My box, after downloading the icon from forum or vo-wiki, and using KDE's menu editor, resulted in a main menu/Games entry from a file:

/home/MYUSER/.local/share/applications/Vendetta Online.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Vendetta Online Space MORPG
Exec=/home/MYUSER/vendetta/update.rlb
Icon=/home/MYUSER/vendetta/vendetta_icon_128.png
Name=Vendetta Online
NoDisplay=false
Path[$e]=$HOME/vendetta/
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=0
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

I think this problem goes under this topic...
I have just installed VO for Ubuntu 8.10. Fine
It runs the updater and verifiyer. Fine
It starts to load the opening screen, goes black,resizes screen, quits, and desktop screen is still resized.
I dont get to see any error messages...
What to do?

What video card do you have?

If you start the game from a terminal does it print anything interesting there? Anything in ~/.vendetta/errors.log?