I downloaded the 2.70 release of blender from the blender website (blender.org) and extracted the file to /home. The instructions in the readme say that I need to simply run the executable binary. However when I attempt to open the file nothing happens. I opened a bash and made the file executable, still no dice.

what am I doing wrong here? the terminal just tells me that it cannot execute the binary file...

I do not want the build available from the software center as it is v2.62. I already have this installed and am trying to install the 2.7 build available from the website

Output from the console

cromwell@Terminal:~$ sudo chmod +x /home/cromwell/blender-2.70-linux-glibc211-x86_64/blender

[sudo] password for cromwell: 

cromwell@Terminal:~$ sudo /home/cromwell/blender-2.70-linux-glibc211-x86_64/blender

/home/cromwell/blender-2.70-linux-glibc211-x86_64/blender: 2: /home/cromwell/blender-2.70-linux-glibc211-x86_64/blender: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

cromwell@Terminal:~$ 

cromwell@Terminal:/$ ls /home/cromwell/blender-2.70-linux-glibc211-x86_64

2.70                    GPL3-license.txt       LICENSE-bmonofont-i18n.ttf.txt

blender                 GPL-license.txt        LICENSE-droidsans.ttf.txt

blenderplayer           icons                  Python-license.txt

blender-softwaregl      jemalloc-license.txt   readme.html

blender-thumbnailer.py  lib

copyright.txt           LICENSE-bfont.ttf.txt