I'm trying to get the new launcher, but I've been running into some headaches. I'm using Linux Mint 17.3 (64-bit), Debian 14.04. I am not a Linux expert; everything I know I've picked up randomly from my brother and google, and it makes for a very incomplete set of knowledge.
When I try to install Minecraft.deb, it gets stuck at "Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1)..." After two hours on google and playing around with the terminal, I got tired of banging my head against the wall and went for the archive files. Unfortunately, I've never run anything like this before, and all the instructions I can find for compiling a tar.gz into an executable tell me to look at the install or readme file in the archive...which does not seem to exist. I've downloaded the files twice, and I can find no such thing.
Does anybody have some instructions? Either as a fix for the .deb file or for using the archive?
If you want to do things by the manual, you should untar it using sudo in /opt/ (it will create a subdir by its own) or otherwise without sudo you can uncompress it only where your user can write (eg in your home directory). After that, you'll find minecraft-launcher.sh in minecraft-launcher-2.1.1349 (this can change based on launcher version) and you can start it from the command line or from the file manager.
Instruction to start it via terminal/command line, assuming it's installed in /opt/minecraft-launcher-2.1.1349:
cd /opt/minecraft-launcher-2.1.1349
./minecraft-launcher.sh
Don't close the terminal/shell it can close the launcher if you do so.
Note that this is not a source file, it cannot be compiled as in the usual ./configure ; make and make install way! It's a 64 bit binary (launcher) plus the support files (skin, libraries, and so on).
Keep in mind that using the raw installer, you won't get a desktop icon, you must create a desktop file yourself (not difficult) or launch it via the file manager or a shell every time.
About the debian package, it should work unless you have installed a lot of icons and you have a very slow disk, as patching icon themes should not get this slow... but I usually don't use debian or ubuntu so maybe there's something I don't know happening in the background (some missing libraries, maybe?)
I seem to be missing some files or something, as I got this with ./minecraft-launcher.sh:
./minecraft-launcher.sh: 2: ./minecraft-launcher.sh: realpath: not found
./launcher: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by ./launcher)
./launcher: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.9' not found (required by ./launcher)
./launcher: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by ./launcher)
./launcher: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by ./launcher)
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So the problem is you linux mint is probably old, as the latest version is 19. 17.3 is supported until 2019, but I think you have glibc++ and other libs too old to support the new binary.
That could explain why the deb is hanging during installation.
If you can still use old java launcher, that's fine because I have no problem with that, and as long as you have a working Java8, Minecraft would run just fine. Otherwise you should update your Mint installation to the latest version. Unfortunately I'm not a Mint expert, so I can only point you to the procedure, I can only advice to make one (or even two) backups in case something go wrong: https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
I can only seem to use the old launcher when I'm online (which is annoying, since most of the week I have no internet connection). I guess I might be getting cornered into upgrading to 19, then (at least, if I want Minecraft). Pity; I always get frustrated when I have to adapt to a new version of anything.
Thanks for the help. I was getting really frustrated on my own.
I can only seem to use the old launcher when I'm online (which is annoying, since most of the week I have no internet connection).
Well actually the old launcher works fine offline, I used it a lot of times. You should check that you create a profile with a exact version of the game to use offline, otherwise it will stall trying to check if there's a new version and you must wait for every check to timeout before playing, which can be frustrating.
The new launcher is the same, probably it's just a bit easier to pin a particular version.
I'm trying to get the new launcher, but I've been running into some headaches. I'm using Linux Mint 17.3 (64-bit), Debian 14.04. I am not a Linux expert; everything I know I've picked up randomly from my brother and google, and it makes for a very incomplete set of knowledge.
When I try to install Minecraft.deb, it gets stuck at "Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1)..." After two hours on google and playing around with the terminal, I got tired of banging my head against the wall and went for the archive files. Unfortunately, I've never run anything like this before, and all the instructions I can find for compiling a tar.gz into an executable tell me to look at the install or readme file in the archive...which does not seem to exist. I've downloaded the files twice, and I can find no such thing.
Does anybody have some instructions? Either as a fix for the .deb file or for using the archive?
Hi, I'm currently running the new installer in binary form under Mageia.
I'm using the “Raw Installer” options, you can download the file here: https://launcher.mojang.com/download/Minecraft.tar.gz
If you want to do things by the manual, you should untar it using sudo in /opt/ (it will create a subdir by its own) or otherwise without sudo you can uncompress it only where your user can write (eg in your home directory). After that, you'll find minecraft-launcher.sh in minecraft-launcher-2.1.1349 (this can change based on launcher version) and you can start it from the command line or from the file manager.
Instruction to start it via terminal/command line, assuming it's installed in /opt/minecraft-launcher-2.1.1349:
Don't close the terminal/shell it can close the launcher if you do so.
Note that this is not a source file, it cannot be compiled as in the usual ./configure ; make and make install way! It's a 64 bit binary (launcher) plus the support files (skin, libraries, and so on).
Keep in mind that using the raw installer, you won't get a desktop icon, you must create a desktop file yourself (not difficult) or launch it via the file manager or a shell every time.
About the debian package, it should work unless you have installed a lot of icons and you have a very slow disk, as patching icon themes should not get this slow... but I usually don't use debian or ubuntu so maybe there's something I don't know happening in the background (some missing libraries, maybe?)
I seem to be missing some files or something, as I got this with ./minecraft-launcher.sh:
./minecraft-launcher.sh: 2: ./minecraft-launcher.sh: realpath: not found
./launcher: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by ./launcher)
./launcher: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.9' not found (required by ./launcher)
./launcher: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by ./launcher)
./launcher: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.21' not found (required by ./launcher)
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So the problem is you linux mint is probably old, as the latest version is 19. 17.3 is supported until 2019, but I think you have glibc++ and other libs too old to support the new binary.
That could explain why the deb is hanging during installation.
If you can still use old java launcher, that's fine because I have no problem with that, and as long as you have a working Java8, Minecraft would run just fine. Otherwise you should update your Mint installation to the latest version. Unfortunately I'm not a Mint expert, so I can only point you to the procedure, I can only advice to make one (or even two) backups in case something go wrong: https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
I can only seem to use the old launcher when I'm online (which is annoying, since most of the week I have no internet connection). I guess I might be getting cornered into upgrading to 19, then (at least, if I want Minecraft). Pity; I always get frustrated when I have to adapt to a new version of anything.
Thanks for the help. I was getting really frustrated on my own.
Well actually the old launcher works fine offline, I used it a lot of times. You should check that you create a profile with a exact version of the game to use offline, otherwise it will stall trying to check if there's a new version and you must wait for every check to timeout before playing, which can be frustrating.
The new launcher is the same, probably it's just a bit easier to pin a particular version.
I finally figured that out. Today. Days after I first ran into the issue. Silly me.
Thank you!