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It is not necessary to install Minecraft. All you need to do is install Java.
Now right click on your Minecraft.jar file and select "Open with Oracle Java 7 Runtime"
That's it. Enjoy!
Related:
How to install Java?
How can I install Oracle Java JRE 7?
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This guide (Which took me a little over 3 days to write and test) was made to solve most problems regarding the correct installation of Minecraft. It is very thorough and oriented for Ubuntu 11.10+ since this was the first version to include OpenJDK 1.7, but it might still be missing more information to solve more problems regarding Minecraft.
I also did ...
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The important part is in your message:
"The file '/home/mike/Downloads/minecraft.jar' is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied from an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit."
Command line
The command:
sudo chmod +x /home/mike/Downloads/minecraft.jar
will make it executable. Be ...
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I have the same problem but I installed via webupd8 - Install Oracle Java (JDK) 7 in Ubuntu via PPA Repository, searching the internet I found this script (I'm adapted the script to my system) but basically this is:
#!/bin/bash
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/java/jre/lib/amd64"
java minecraft.jar
The script for my system:
#!/bin/bash
export ...
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The legal problems you are referring are about the distribution of Oracle Java. Its license prevents that it could be provided in the default repositories, but its perfectly legal to download and install it.
Probably the easiest way is to use the WebUpd8 ppa:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ...
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.jar files are not executable, so you have to open them with something (java):
Exec=java -jar /home/benjamin/Applications/Minecraft/TechnicLauchner/technic-launcher-latest.jar
Anyway, I wouldn't recommend creating those files manually from scratch.
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Download the latest copy of LWJGL from here http://lwjgl.org/download.php and extract it
Copy the following to ~/.minecraft/bin
jinput.jar
lwjgl.jar
lwjgl_util.jar
And the following to ~/.minecraft/bin/natives
libjinput-linux.so
libjinput-linux64.so
liblwjgl.so
liblwjgl64.so
libopenal.so
libopenal64.so
Then restart Minecraft
Make sure you overwrite ...
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Found this on a Fedora forum and it worked nicely for me running 12.04 Ubuntu-64bit with OpenJDK7u3
Link
"I just had the same problem, and here is what worked for me:
Go to http://lwjgl.org/download.php
Click the link to download the newest stable release
Download lwjgl-x.x.x.zip (lwjgl-2.8.3.zip at the time of writing)
Go to your home ...
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You can install OpenJDK by pressing this link. After, open Minecraft with right-click in Minecraft.jar > Open with > OpenJDK Java 7 Runtime.
If it's still not working, press this link, and do the same as before.
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I play minecraft and I fixed the issue by:
Using oracles version of java by using the wepupd8 teams java ppa. Follow this tutorial:
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-oracle-java-7-in-ubuntu-12-04.html
Then try this in terminal
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/lib/i386"
And then:
java -jar technic-launcher-latest.jar
If ...
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Patching LWJGL in Minecraft (Linux)
Download the LWJGL files
Go to the LWJGL download page and download the latest stable release.
Open the .zip in Archive Manager.
The jars are found in "jar" and the natives are found in "natives/linux"
Patch the LWJGL files by doing the following
Open your home directory (You can usually just do this by opening the ...
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This may be a problem with the Lightweight Java Game Library (lwjgl). Mojang does not keep up with their updates. Download the latest version from http://lwjgl.org/download.php, and extract the archive. Replace jinput.jar, lwjgl.jar, and lwjgl_util.jar in the .minecraft/bin directory with the corresponding files from the extracted directory lwjgl-2.8.x/jar. ...
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You can make it manualy, or using Alacarte. Here's the way:
1: Install Alacarte
It will install some Gnome dependencies. Nothing to worry about.
2: Create a new entry
In the command entry, click browse and select your .jar file.
You may need to add /usr/bin/java -jar to the start of the Command, so that it looks like /usr/bin/java -jar ...
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It's possible the problem is with some of the libraries he's using that he's using. But the bug should be fixed in a later version of the libraries. http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=57426 has a solution. In short:
Procedure:
1. Make sure minecraft alpha has been run at least once so it can download the gamedata.
2. Download the ...
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The core error here is an X error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation). You'll see this if you don't have enough video memory available for something.
Recommendations:
Get a better graphics card with a decent amount of video memory
If you're on a laptop where the video card shares system RAM, go into the BIOS at boot and allocate more memory ...
3
Make sure to have a java runtime installed (OpenJDK,sun-java), and execute the minecraft.jar with
java -jar /path/of/minecraft.jar
alternatively, you can right click the jar file and select to run it with your installed Java runtime.
You can even create an empty file and input the
java -jar /path/of/minecraft.jar
and you have created a shortcut!
On ...
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Install OpenJDK Java 7
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
Then download the latest copy of LWJGL from here http://lwjgl.org/download.php and extract it
Copy the following to ~/.minecraft/bin
jinput.jar
lwjgl.jar
lwjgl_util.jar
And the following to ~/.minecraft/bin/natives
libjinput-linux.so
libjinput-linux64.so
liblwjgl.so
liblwjgl64.so
...
3
actually, the program "screen" allows you to do just that.
There are complete, step by step instructions on how to use it at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=299286
(the thread is a bit old, so I checked, and it really works)
What you'll want to do is to open a screen as the article instructs, and then just run the program in there. Whenever a ...
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You did not specify how you added your cronjob. This makes a big difference: if you've used crontab -e within your own account, scripts are run with your user (and thus the crontab entry has one field less -- the user to run it, as that is known). If you simply copied your above snipped to /etc/cron.d, it would fail as you didn't specify a user (or rather as ...
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Came upon your question by searching for the same answers... And I think I found a solution (works in terminal, not with the Unity Icon, though).
I've got Ubuntu 12.04 64 bits, with NVidia proprietary drivers (seems important)
Minecraft seems to have issue with OpenJDK, so I installed Oracle JRE instead:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo ...
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In Minecraft 1.2.5,the LWJGL files were updated. Mojang forgot to update their database with the new LWJGL linux files. You need to update them yourself(this will be fixed in MInecraft 1.3). Here is the wiki link with instructions: http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Tutorials/Update_LWJGL
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There's nothing in Linux which would force a program to use less than 100% CPU or not to allocate as much RAM as it needs, provided that no other process needs the same resources at the same time. nice value just determines how "nice" (got it?) the process plays with others and how much is it willing to share CPU time with other processes.
It's like if ...
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It depends. If you are planing on using the box that this is running on purely as a server and have the knowledge (or the determination) to manage it purely from ssh and the command line then it would be better to use Ubuntu Server, since, lacking the desktop, everything would run a little faster. Furthermore it is configured better for a server out of the ...
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Try exiting Minecraft and re-launching it again. If it happens again, you will need to update the Lightweight Java Game Library files for Minecraft. To do that, do the following:
1) Download the latest version of LWJGL.
2) Extract the contents of the downloaded zip file.
3) Go into your Home folder and press Ctrl + H on your keyboard to view the hidden ...
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The solution is simple. Navigate to the .jar file in Nautilus(File manager) and right-click it. Go to the Permissions tab and check the box labeled:
Allow executing file as program
This sets the executable bit the JDK was complaining about.
But why is this, and what is this "executable bit" thingy?
In Linux, file extensions have less of a role in ...
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Ubuntu can mount your Windows 7 partition, so simply clicking and dragging from the windows partition to the ubuntu partition within ubuntu should allow you to 'transfer' the file.
Minecraft is written in JAVA and thus runs natively in almost every OS, including Ubuntu.
Halo supposedly runs pretty well in WINE.
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I'm assuming you already have minecraft.jar downloaded. If not, then you can get it from minecraft.net.
Minecraft is written in Java, and so if you want to run it (or any other application written in Java) you need to install the appropriate package. That package is OpenJDK Java 7 Runtime, and you can install it by opening the Ubuntu Software Centre and ...
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With the Ubuntu Software Center open go to File > Reinstall Previous Purchases
Login with the account you used to purchase the software
After you have done that a list of available purchased software will be displayed. Select the software you previously bought and press install
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Ubuntu would be a superior choice for hosting a server based application, especially if you use the server edition of Ubuntu. There would be less resources diverted to unnecessary things, like the desktop interface. The downside is that it would be command line only. You can always still go with Ubuntu desktop if you need a desktop interface.
To setup a ...
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Just realized...you are running minecraft directly, you don't run minecraft from the bin directory, you run it from the launcher.
Launcher is located on the minecraft.net site
https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/minecraft.jar
Same name, different programs
If that doesn't help refer to the following...
Definitive guide, I have been ...
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