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

1. Install a Java runtime (Java 7 is recommended), unzip (to extract the download) and wget (to download) the client.

   sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre unzip wget

2. Create a directory to install the client to.

   cd $HOME
   mkdir Iceparticles
   cd Iceparticles

3. Download the Linux client

   wget http://armouree.vm.bytemark.co.uk/Iceparticles/Iceparticles-Linux.zip

4. Extract the files.

   unzip Iceparticles-Linux.zip

5. Give the launch script execute permissions.

   chmod a+rx Iceparticles.sh

1. Change directory to where you extracted the files.

    cd $HOME/Iceparticles

2. Run the launch script.

   ./Iceparticles.sh