The following apply to all recent versions of Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distributions such as Mint. They may also work on Debian.
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre unzip wget
cd $HOME mkdir Iceparticles cd Iceparticles
wget http://armouree.vm.bytemark.co.uk/Iceparticles/Iceparticles-Linux.zip
unzip Iceparticles-Linux.zip
chmod a+rx Iceparticles.sh
cd $HOME/Iceparticles
./Iceparticles.sh