When I run sh ./vendetta-linux-installer.sh

I recieve the error:

Verifying archive integrity...OK
Uncompressing Vendetta Demo for Linux..
./vendetta-linux-installer.sh: ./setup.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
The program returned an error code (126)


Does anyone have any thoughts on how to fix this so I can be able to enjoy Vendetta?

Nylrem

OH.... i'm running Redhat 8.0 on P4-1.5GHz w/ 384 MB ram and a 16meg Geforce 3 card.

Just out of curiousity, can you run as root? Don't install the whole thing, but will it let you run?

yeah....i tried running it as root...but i still recieved the same error

Question: did you execute ./vendetta-linux-installer.sh or did you "sh vendetta-linux-installer.sh"?

I tried both...and I've never run into this sort of shell interpreter problem before.

Have you ever used the Loki Installer? Does it work for you?

No...I've never used the Loki Installer.
I'll give it a shot.

chmod 755 /bin/sh
although it would be very weird that something /bin doesn't have +x permissions, so its probably something else

I just noticed that /bin/sh is linked to /bin/bash
I know that these are pretty much the same, but could this conflict arise from this fact?

That's not a problem, mine links to bash as well.

Wow, that's bizarre. Did you try chmod 755 vendetta-linux-installer.sh first? If you can run /bin/sh, it doesn't really make sense, unless you have some kind of paranoid kernel patch which only runs certain interpreters. I haven't run into this before.

I've only seen this once before and to this day I don't know what I did to make it happen, but try:

chmod 755 (or even 777) /path/to/vendetta/installer.

i.e. # chmod 755 /home/turmoyl/apps

Some Linux flavors also don't give execute permissions to home directories and that can cause this issue.

What filesystem is the drive u are installing to, be sure you install it on an EXT2 or EXT3 drive, and NOT a VFAT drive.. Permission Denied is very common of installing progs to/from a fat drive...