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Game will not Load

May 24, 2008 TimoftheC link
Hi all,

New to vendetta and pretty new to linux.

I've downloaded the game to the desktop (running ubuntu 8.4) and attempted to load it, however, without success.

The Download area of the web site says to load it using "sh ./vendetta-linux-x-installer.sh." however, that does not work and I get the error message "sh: Can't open ./vendetta-linux-x-installer.sh."

I've attempted double clicking the loader and the process appears to start but I end up with a big red stop sign and the message that
"gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file.
Select a character coding from the menu and try again."

There are two options for encoding presented and I have tried both, without success.

Anybody have any tips on where I'm going wrong?
May 24, 2008 mr_spuck link
You normally start out in your home directory when you open a shell. Try doing a "cd Desktop" first to change to the desktop directory.

and then "sh ./vendetta-linux-ia32-installer.sh" or "sh ./vendetta-linux-amd64-installer.sh" depending on the version you downloaded.

You can list the contents of a directory with ls.

You can also just enter sh ven and hit tab to auto complete the name. Hitting tab twice gives you a list matches if there were more than one.
May 24, 2008 yodaofborg link
Sounds like the executable bit is not set. Especially if it is trying to open it with Gedit. Type chmod 777 ./vendetta-linux-ia32-installer.sh in a terminal, and then double clicking the file will now offer the option of running it in a terminal.
May 25, 2008 TimoftheC link
thnx for the help guys - the problem was my novice state with linux.

I downloaded the launcher to the desktop and when I opened a terminal, the curser was "xxx@xxx-desktop:~$" and I assumed that the curser was at the right place. In the end, I moved the launcher to the home directory and then it all worked.

Edit - all loaded up and have done the first four tutorials. Impressed with how easy it was to install and run (apart from the above but thats a learning curve for me).