Minecraft Installer

[robbosch]

Having a similar problem. The script seems to run just fine. But there is no icon created on the desktop and running from Terminal gives: Unable to access jarfile /home/rob/.minecraft/minecraft.jar
I checked permissions and even ran sudo minecraft. But still no go.

Running on oneiric with unity desktop.

Any ideas?

/edit: when I look at permissions after installation, permissions are set for root and not for the user that installed the program. How can root have permission when installed with user credentials?

[greenblob]

Hi,
I've installed this successfully on a fresh install of 11.04 natty 32 bit on a Dell Dimension 5100 with a dual core hyper-threaded 3.1GHZ Intel Pentium 4 processor, 2GB 400mhz DDR2 RAM, and a 256MB ATI RADEON X300SE, so I know my PC is capable of running Minecraft, as I can run a standard FPS with all settings on max and get 40FPS easily.

Minecraft DOES RUN FINE, bit is RIDICULOUSLY laggy though, does anybody know anything I can do to speed it up a bit (in terms of software) please?

I also get this message when typing minecraft into terminal. Minecraft runs fine, but there still appears to be some sort of error...

luke@luke-Dimension-5100:~$ minecraft
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "javaw": java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
	at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:460)
	at net.minecraft.MinecraftLauncher.main(MinecraftLauncher.java:31)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory
	at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:148)
	at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65)
	at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:453)
	... 1 more
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/luke/.minecraft/lastlogin (No such file or directory)
	at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
	at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:120)
	at net.minecraft.LoginForm.readUsername(LoginForm.java:131)
	at net.minecraft.LoginForm.<init>(LoginForm.java:76)
	at net.minecraft.LauncherFrame.<init>(LauncherFrame.java:30)
	at net.minecraft.LauncherFrame.main(LauncherFrame.java:158)
	at net.minecraft.MinecraftLauncher.main(MinecraftLauncher.java:36)
17 achievements
161 recipes
Setting user: private, -1260345861567849824
Loading: net.java.games.input.LinuxEnvironmentPlugin
Failed to open device (/dev/input/event11): Failed to open device /dev/input/event11 (13)

Failed to open device (/dev/input/event10): Failed to open device /dev/input/event10 (13)

Failed to open device (/dev/input/event9): Failed to open device /dev/input/event9 (13)

Failed to open device (/dev/input/event8): Failed to open device /dev/input/event8 (13)

Failed to open device (/dev/input/event7): Failed to open device /dev/input/event7 (13)

Failed to open device (/dev/input/event6): Failed to open device /dev/input/event6 (13)

Failed to open device (/dev/input/event5): Failed to open device /dev/input/event5 (13)

Failed to open device (/dev/input/event4): Failed to open device /dev/input/event4 (13)

Failed to open device (/dev/input/event3): Failed to open device /dev/input/event3 (13)

Failed to open device (/dev/input/event2): Failed to open device /dev/input/event2 (13)

Failed to open device (/dev/input/event1): Failed to open device /dev/input/event1 (13)

Failed to open device (/dev/input/event0): Failed to open device /dev/input/event0 (13)

Linux plugin claims to have found 0 controllers

Starting up SoundSystem...
Initializing LWJGL OpenAL
    (The LWJGL binding of OpenAL.  For more information, see http://www.lwjgl.org)
OpenAL initialized.

New max size: 400
New max size: 784
New max size: 1764
New max size: 5476
New max size: 18496
New max size: 19044
Stopping!
AL lib: ALc.c:1352: exit(): closing 1 Device
AL lib: ALc.c:1329: alcCloseDevice(): destroying 1 Context
AL lib: alSource.c:2361: alcDestroyContext(): deleting 32 Source(s)
luke@luke-Dimension-5100:~$ 

Thanks For Any Help

[iamjagman]

Minecraft won't run. I get this message in the terminal:

27 achievements
174 recipes
Setting user: iamjagman, -3541158989659340236
failed to create drawable
org.lwjgl.LWJGLException: X Error - disp: 0x28bbf60 serial: 94 error: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) request_code: 60 minor_code: 0
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.globalErrorHandler(LinuxDisplay.java:268)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxKeyboard.nSetDetectableKeyRepeat(Native Method)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxKeyboard.setDetectableKeyRepeat(LinuxKeyboard.java:152)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxKeyboard.destroy(LinuxKeyboard.java:163)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.LinuxDisplay.destroyKeyboard(LinuxDisplay.java:1015)
	at org.lwjgl.input.Keyboard.destroy(Keyboard.java:349)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.destroyWindow(Display.java:350)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:867)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:784)
	at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:205)
	at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:644)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Only one LWJGL context may be instantiated at any one time.
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:846)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:784)
	at org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Display.java:765)
	at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a(SourceFile:237)
	at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(SourceFile:644)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)

[martinix97]

hi,
i realy like this game, so thanks for the script. while i was playing i notest a bug. when i use the F11 fullscreen utility, i can't look in every direction, instead of lookining 360º i can only see 180º.
thanks for the atencion and the script.

ps:srry by the bad inglish but im portugues and im only 14.

[ExpL0it0R]

When you press F11 and go into full screen, press escape twice and you will be able to.

[metalinspired]

Thank you sooooo much

[Hekabe]

Is it possible to play the game offline using the infrastructure set up by this script?

[zack346]

When I tried to use it, it worked and downloaded minecraft, but it never let me use it.
I said the error because it failed to download the child process java... is there anything i can do to still make it work???

[Oneanimefan]

THANK YOU I HAVE A UBUNTU COMP. FOR MY SCHOOL AND I SOOO WANTED TO PLAY MINECRAFT! only one problem, when i try to "play minecraft" it says

Invalid or corrupt jarfile /home/user/.minecraft/minecraft.jar


IM SO MAD plz help!!!!

[regor210]

As of Ubuntu 11.10 sun-java is not in the repositories.
Sun was bought out by Oracle. Oracle has a shaky relationship with the open source community.
So Java 7 is Oracle Java and is not in are repositories.
The good news is before Oracle bought out Sun, Sun made Java open source as in OpenJDK.
Ubuntu uses OpenJDK. The bad news is Minecraft runs best using sun-java. The bash script you are using was made for earlier versions of Ubuntu that had sun-java in there repositories.

Ubuntu recommends
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java

The bash script your using calls for

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
$ sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

I think it can be found here.
http://www.duinsoft.nl/packages.php?t=en

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Alternately

Many of us use this ppa
http://superuser.com/questions/35398...u-11-10-oneric

The problem is who is ferramroberto. Getting software and updates from who know where poses a security risk.

I use his repositorie but after installing Mincraft I goto Ubuntu software source > Other Software and I disable ferramroberto ppa's to some what minimize the risk.