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more information that just " running on mint " will be required for the devs to help

things like
MintLinux "what" -- what version is it ?

your hardware specs
as in a laptop or desktop
the CPU - 32 bit 64 bit ?

the graphics card
a built in pseudo 3d "chip" ( they are getting better but...)
or a full 3d card

if chip or card who made it
Nvidia,AMD, intel ( chip only )

the driver for this ?
the opensource ATI or nvidia nouveau
OR the closed source ati or nvidia driver
there is a VERY big difference in them

and the versions of said drivers

you will notice that i have typed a lot about the driver
most of this replay - it is THAT important

also seeing as this IS a linux install you have access to a real and full fledged TERMINAL
a terminal that IS useful ( unlike the windows cmd )

run Mandelbulber from the terminal and POST the error that you get

before rebuilding lets see what the terminal out put is
it might be just a simple thing

but
building the program is VERY easy ( installing ?? well that is a different matter and Mandelbulber is STILL a newish program )
A manual install will be needed - not hard just a few extra steps

and AS A RULE it is normally better to just build from source if the program IS NOT in your distros. repo. 

make sure that the development tools and  autotools are installed
i just pulled SVN revision 261( a bug fix )

pull a copy
copy/paste the "Mandelbulber" folder to a new location ( NEVER build IN the svn/cvs/git download folder )

open a terminal in the "makefiles" folder and type in ( one of a few things )
you can leave the "all" out
"all " is ASSUMED to be typed  even when it is not ( it IS a default )
the -j and -j3
is use ALL the CPU cores in building or 3 of them ( i have a intel i5 on this box and use 3 of the 4 cpu cores )

all of the above will take about 5 min.