====== Installing Iceparticles On Linux ======

===== Ubuntu =====

The following apply to all recent versions of Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distributions such as Mint. They may also work on Debian.

==== Installing ====

  - Install a Java runtime (Java 7 is recommended), unzip (to extract the download) and wget (to download) the client. <code>sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre unzip wget</code>    
  - Create a directory to install the client to. <code>cd $HOME
mkdir Iceparticles
cd Iceparticles</code>
  - Download the Linux client <code>wget http://armouree.vm.bytemark.co.uk/Iceparticles/Iceparticles-Linux.zip</code>
  - Extract the files.<code>unzip Iceparticles-Linux.zip</code>
  - Give the launch script execute permissions.<code>chmod a+rx Iceparticles.sh</code>

==== Running The Particle Editor ====

  - Change directory to where you extracted the files. <code> cd $HOME/Iceparticles</code>
  - Run the launch script. <code>./Iceparticles.sh</code>