I bought and downloaded the game last night, when attempting to start the game through
"java -jar minecraft.jar"
It appeared to start. The game underwent a forced update and then, as it tried to initialize I got a black screen with this error
Exception in thread "Thread-3" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/andrew/.minecraft/bin/natives/liblwjgl.so: /home/andrew/.minecraft/bin/natives/liblwjgl.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 (Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch)
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.System.load(Unknown Source)
at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:69)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:65)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:81)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:98)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.F(SourceFile:1857)
at aof.<init>(SourceFile:20)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.<init>(SourceFile:77)
at anw.<init>(SourceFile:36)
at net.minecraft.client.MinecraftApplet.init(SourceFile:36)
at net.minecraft.Launcher.replace(Launcher.java:136)
at net.minecraft.Launcher$1.run(Launcher.java:79)
I have no idea how to fix this, and would greatly appreciate some help.
"java -jar minecraft.jar"
It appeared to start. The game underwent a forced update and then, as it tried to initialize I got a black screen with this error
Exception in thread "Thread-3" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/andrew/.minecraft/bin/natives/liblwjgl.so: /home/andrew/.minecraft/bin/natives/liblwjgl.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 (Possible cause: architecture word width mismatch)
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary1(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.System.load(Unknown Source)
at org.lwjgl.Sys$1.run(Sys.java:69)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.doLoadLibrary(Sys.java:65)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.loadLibrary(Sys.java:81)
at org.lwjgl.Sys.<clinit>(Sys.java:98)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.F(SourceFile:1857)
at aof.<init>(SourceFile:20)
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.<init>(SourceFile:77)
at anw.<init>(SourceFile:36)
at net.minecraft.client.MinecraftApplet.init(SourceFile:36)
at net.minecraft.Launcher.replace(Launcher.java:136)
at net.minecraft.Launcher$1.run(Launcher.java:79)
I have no idea how to fix this, and would greatly appreciate some help.