Freitag, 1. April 2011

How to play Minecraft on Linux Ubuntu

Minecraft is one of those games, which run on Ubuntu natively. Of course you will have to have Java set up correctly. I'll show you how to do that in a short video!
Disregard the sloppy gameplay in the video, without screencasting, everything will run smooth.


You need to install Sun Java 6
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
The most important command i used is
sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun
because even if the the sun-java6-jdk/jre is installed correctly, another jre/jdk like openjdk may be the preferred version of java, preventing Minecraft from starting.
The command will set SUNs JRE as the default one and evade problems.

28 Kommentare:

Dragmire hat gesagt…

Cool, I learned something today.

Unknown hat gesagt…

It's good that there are some games written in Java. Multi platform gaming rocks.

Danny Murphy hat gesagt…

Good stuff mate, its a good game

Come At Me Bro hat gesagt…

This is great!

Astronomy Pirate hat gesagt…

I've never tried to play Minecraft on my Linux partition, I might have to try this out.

-M- hat gesagt…

Your theme looks beautiful. What is it called?

cool_cicler hat gesagt…

Hey Danke alter, dein blog scheint sehr interessant zu sein. Werde folgen!

dende hat gesagt…

@-M- it's called mint-x, and you can download it here

it's the default theme in Linux Mint 10

ed hat gesagt…

never used linux ubuntu before, cool feature

Moobeat hat gesagt…

helpful!

following

Kboy71 hat gesagt…

Yeah nice Bra-htwerst

Minecraftblogger hat gesagt…

Now this is interesting for me (":

Canon hat gesagt…

Great info!

Rank hat gesagt…

there are games on linux! i knew it! thanks for the guide

Razor hat gesagt…

Nice! clear and easy!

Wumbo hat gesagt…

Great post. I'm actually thinking about installing Linux so it's good that I have a blog to give me info and tips for it. Thanks!

Canty hat gesagt…

I know what Im gonna be up to today

Nope hat gesagt…

It's a shame it isn't as easy as on a Windows machine :(
But then again Linux is always a fun challenge.

Jay hat gesagt…

very useful for linux users, thanks. :D

Dootzkie hat gesagt…

Thanks for this helpful post.

I've been pondering to switch to Linux but I wasn't sure of the down sides that it would make on my precious time sink :D

triade hat gesagt…

thank you for sharing

Megan Hansen hat gesagt…

wow i didn't expect minecraft to work on linux

lol hat gesagt…

I can't ever get minecraft to work on linux. Perhaps this one will do the trick. Thanks man!

Pseudonachrichten hat gesagt…

nice song in the video :D

Wilco hat gesagt…

very nice. installed ubuntu yesterday

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Sphyrix hat gesagt…

nice!

Synetik hat gesagt…

thanks for sharing.

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