For anyone trying to install v2.0 on Linux: You need to install libpng12 (and maybe lib32-libpng12?) using your package manager. Then make the right files execuable:
chmod -x SQ2VGA_V2 Linux/data/ags*
Once that is done, you can start the game with:
Linux/SQ2VGA_V2
It took me a little while to figure out why it wasn't working, so I thought I'd share for anyone else. It would be handy to have the right file permissions already in the .rar (or in the startup script) and personally I'd prefer a .tgz on linux. With any luck this will be fixed in a future release.