I have followed other available advice on Minecraft, Java, etc, but can't find anything that works. Here is my story:
For a couple years I have been successfully running a cracked Windows version of Minecraft with Wine, it worked perfectly. After having problems updating to 14.04 and deciding to do a fresh install, I never bothered to reinstall Minecraft. Recently, I decided to pay for a legit version of Minecraft and found that there is now a Linux version, so I created an account and downloaded the files.
However, attempts to install this version were initially met with glx errors, and after following some fixes the new error is that Minecraft requires a kernel of 3.6 or above. uname -r
shows my kernel is 3.4, and all attempts to upgrade to a newer kernel have failed, or more accurately, not had any effect. Frustrated, I attempted to install the Minecraft .exe in wine the way I used to run it, but each time I am informed that my java is not up to date (application requires a java runtime environment 1.6.0), any attempt to update fails with the following error message:
"Installation failed, the wizard was interrupted before java 7 update 67 could be completely installed. To complete installation at another time, please run setup again."
Following any fixes I could find broke so many things on my machine that I ended up doing a powerwash and starting all over again with a fresh install, but I can still not successfully upgrade my kernel or make Minecraft work in wine.
To summarize, I have two basic questions:
- Why can't I upgrade my kernel?
- Why can't I install Minecraft in Wine as I used to have it?
Running Ubuntu 14.04 with XFCE on Acer c720 chromebook.
$ uname -a
Linux localhost 3.4.0 #1 SMP Thu Jul 24 15:16:00 PDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Edit: more info
$ ls /usr/lib/jvm/
java-1.6.0-openjdk-amd64 java-6-openjdk-amd64 java-7-openjdk-amd64
java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64 java-6-openjdk-common
$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_55"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.4.7) (7u55-2.4.7-1ubuntu1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode