Just installed 12.04 and wanna play minecraft

[Jeggy94]

I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 beta 2 64bit on my Dell XPS 15.
Openjdk ain't in the software center. I really wanna get Minecraft to work on my laptop.

anyone know of anyway i can get it to work?

[linuxd1]

Check this : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1812767

[Jeggy94]

Check this : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1812767

Openjdk ain't in the software center... thats why i asked here

[dino99]

Openjdk ain't in the software center... thats why i asked here

find it & install it via synaptic

sudo apt-get install synaptic
sudo synaptic

[Jeggy94]

find it & install it via synaptic

sudo apt-get install synaptic
sudo synaptic

I tried that and i installed openjdk 6 and it don't show up when i right click on the .jar file :/

[cariboo907]

According to this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1945777&highlight=minecraft) thread, you need to install Sun/Oracle java, instead of the open version.

[kaldor]

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

Worked for me. One PC gets a black screen when logging into Minecraft, though.

If that doesn't exist...

1- Open Ubuntu Software Centre
2- Edit the software sources (on one of the menubar options- forget where)
3- Make sure Universe and Multiverse repos are check'd.

Close USC, and reload the repos and try again:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

Good luck.

Edit: I also have the issue with it not showing up in the list when clicking. My temporary solution is to just open a terminal, cd to the directory where minecraft.jar is located, and run this command:


java -jar minecraft.jar

[Jeggy94]

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

Worked for me. One PC gets a black screen when logging into Minecraft, though.

If that doesn't exist...

1- Open Ubuntu Software Centre
2- Edit the software sources (on one of the menubar options- forget where)
3- Make sure Universe and Multiverse repos are check'd.

Close USC, and reload the repos and try again:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

Good luck.

Edit: I also have the issue with it not showing up in the list when clicking. My temporary solution is to just open a terminal, cd to the directory where minecraft.jar is located, and run this command:


java -jar minecraft.jar

Thanks, that worked :D