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Minecraft is a Java-based game about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine.

Minecraft is a sandbox building "indie" video game written in Java originally by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson and now by his company, Mojang (currently owned by Microsoft). It was released on May 17, 2009, with a beta on December 20, 2010.

A screenshot of a randomly generated Minecraft terrain

The full release, version 1.0, was released on November 18, 2011. OS X, Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi, XBox, and PlayStation versions are also available. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft)

Minecraft is dependent on the sun-java6-jre package from the Partner repositories in order to operate on Ubuntu, as the game was built using the Sun Java environment, published by Oracle.

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How can I install Minecraft?

I have tried many tutorials but none of them are clear enough. I have also tried installing it using Wine but it won't update and Wine goes gray and stops working. Does anybody know an easy way to install Minecraft though the Java file without using…
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JAVA_HOME is set to the wrong directory

Hello fellow Ubuntu users, I am trying to learn how to write modifications to Minecraft. In order to follow the tutorial I am using, I need to run a "gradlew". The command is as follows ./gradlew setupDecompWorkspace eclipse This yields the…
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How to install Minecraft (Client)

How to correctly install Minecraft, including setting any needed packages or apps to install it and to troubleshoot the most common problems that Ubuntu users face when trying to use Minecraft. I am trying to install and run Minecraft without first…
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How to add Minecraft to the Unity launcher?

I'm having trouble getting Minecraft to launch when I add it to the launcher. If the game is running, I can right click on the icon in the launcher and select "keep in launcher" and the icon stays, but the game won't launch from it. If I create a…
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How do I create a .desktop file for a .jar file?

My problem is, that I do want to create a .desktop file for Technic Launcher, which is an alternative launcher for Minecraft. It comes in the form of a .jar file and I want to create a menu entry for it. How would I write such a .desktop file? My…
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Minecraft jar not marked as executable

I looked up several tutorials on how to install and they dont work. I do everything correctly but then i get this: The file '/home/mike/Downloads/minecraft.jar' is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied from an …
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Minecraft with OpenJDK 7, I get "the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty"

Im using Ubuntu 15.04 and OpenJDK 7, trying to run Minecraft. This is what I get. EDIT: Minecraft is working now when I use sudo java -jar Minecraft.jar but doesn't work without super user, how would I fix this! The reason i can't run it as super…
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Permission denied when running sh file

I am trying to use an sh file to easily start a screen with my minecraft server console. I named this file mc.sh. I have another sh file in the same directory as mc.sh that runs fine. Here is what is in mc.sh: screen -S minecraft java -Xms1024M…
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Will Sun's Java be available from Canonical's partner repository?

I just discovered that Oracle's (Sun's) Java6 has vanished from the Canonical's partner repository. Before Java was taken from all repositories I had purchased Minecraft for play in Ubuntu. After recent re-install I can not find a way to play this…
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Minecraft in jdk 1.7.0_u2 x64

I have Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit and I installed JDK 1.7.0 update 2 x64 via webupd8 page. But currently I have problem with minecraft game. After downloading launcher from Minecraft.net and lauch the game by java -jar /home/zrebec/Downloads/minecraft.jar…
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JVM errors when running minecraft

This is the output I am getting when I am playing minecraft. Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM warning: Option UseConcMarkSweepGC was deprecated in version 9.0 and will likely be removed in a future release. Unrecognized VM option…
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How to install a .jar file

I would like to know how to install java and minecraft (Download Linux Version Here)
AntiHacker Windows Linux
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Java on Ubuntu server 12.04?

I'm a little confused at the moment. My back story in short, is that I'm trying to set up a Minecraft server on an Ubuntu server I've recently set up, obviously to do this I needed Java, but after googling for a short while I wasn't entirely sure…
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Running Java/Minecraft with the Nvidia GPU

I have ripped the web up trying to figure this out. Bumblebee hasn't helped. I want to run Minecraft on the Nvidia GPU in my laptop. As far as I can tell, Ubuntu default runs it with Intel because Minecraft runs inside of Java, which, obviously, is…
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Minecraft Fullscreen not working

I upgraded to Quantal recently, and Minecraft seems to not want to run in fullscreen. When I go to fullscreen it, the screen will go black for a second, as if it was about to go fullscreen normally, but then it just restores back into its window. So…
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