Took me a few tries but I finally figured it out. So I thought I'd post this here for other newbies like me.

I replaced my username below with 'myname'. In your case, 'myname' should be your username.

Text in << >>, are my comments. Do not type them.

>>Firstly, I downloaded the torrent file then moved it to my Desktop. Then opened a terminal.<<

myname@MMLC-DELL1:~$ ls <<to list the files>>

Desktop index.html Pictures Templates Videos
Documents index.html.1 Public tmp
examples.desktop Music qBT_dir tpsettings.xml

<<Since terminal opens at Home Folder, I had to change directories to the desktop where I had placed the file.>>

myname@MMLC-DELL1:~$ cd Desktop <<Linux is case-sensitive, so make sure to capitalize the d in Desktop>>

myname@MMLC-DELL1:~/Desktop$ ls <<listing the files again to verify that I was in the correct directory>>

2008 From Flash Drive treepad
Accounting2008 install vendetta.txt vendetta-linux-ia32-installer.sh
bbpress news2paper Writing
envirocon Programming-with-Scratch.pdf

myname@MMLC-DELL1:~/Desktop$ ./vendetta-linux-ia32-installer.sh <<use .l in front of the filename to verify the filetype to avoid errors>>

Verifying archive integrity... All good.

Uncompressing Vendetta Online for Linux..................................................................................................................
--- Vendetta Online by Guild Software ---

This is the Linux distribution of Vendetta Online. It requires that you have hardware 3D acceleration set up using OpenGL, preferably with GLX on your X server. You will also need about 200 megabytes free in your home directory.

Every time Vendetta is run, it actually runs an update program which downloads and stores new game content files in your home directory under ~/.vendetta/.

If you would prefer to store the game data in a different place, please abort this script, make a directory where you'd like to store the game, create a symbolic link with ln -s <directory> ~/.vendetta, and make sure your regular user account has permission to write files there.

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*** Installing Vendetta Online for user "myname" ***

This script will install Vendetta Online inside myname's home directory. It will also install an executable called 'vendetta', which runs the game, in your path. We recommend adding home/myname/bin to your path and placing this file there, but you can put it wherever you'd like.

Are you sure you want to do this [Y/n] Y

Where would you like to install the Vendetta executable? [/home/myname/bin] <<just accept the default>>

/home/myname/bin does not exist!

Create it? [yn] y

creating /home/myname/bin

*** Installing Vendetta Online media files ***

*** Installing executable to /home/myname/bin ***

Thank you for installing Vendetta Online.

<<And that is all it took.>>

Oops! instead of .l, use ./

Does ./vendetta-linux-ia32-installer.sh really work?

Normally when you download a file it's not flagged executable so you'd have to use "sh vendetta-linux-ia32-installer.sh" or first do a "chmod +x vendetta-linux-ia32-installer.sh" to set the flag.

Unless Ubuntu does things differently.

complicated, i just rightclick the downloaded file, go to properties, click the "this is an executable file" box and then doubleclick on the file.