Need assistance installing Minecraft in F14.

[rebmobwins]

I've googled a few sites and searched the forums for help with my problems and haven't found anything...

So far I've downloaded the minecraft.jar and can't do anything with it.

I've read around that I need to install JRE/JDK from Oracle, according to this site.

http://sixgun.org/fab/blog/2011/minecraft-howto-f15

I'm not sure what commands to run in terminal, I've played around and haven't really got anywhere.

Here is another helpful source that I've been trying to comprehend:

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.co...-red-hat-rhel/

I'm not sure if it wants me to install JRE or JDK... I'm very confused and would appreciate any help!

[pforsell]

JRE is enough (Runtime Environment). You'll need JDK (Development Kit) only if you'll start programming in Java yourself.

Follow the if-not-... guide you linked (skip 3a and 4a) and that's it.

[rebmobwins]

chmod +x /path/to/file/jdk-6u24-linux-*-rpm.bin
/path/to/binary/jdk-6u24-linux-*-rpm.bin

what's the difference? path to file, path to binary?

[Valkkon]

Minecraft will run perfectly well on F14 without many modifications.

Just figure out which java you are running by using the 'java -version' command.

[user@localhost]$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_20"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.9.7) (fedora-52.1.9.7.fc14-i386)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 19.0-b09, mixed mode)

From there I just put a small script into the same directory where the 'minecraft.jar' file is located. I called mine 'minecraft.sh'. Just place the following inside the file:

#!/bin/bash
java -jar -Xmx1024M -Xms512M minecraft.jar

Then do a chmod +x minecraft.sh to make it executable and invoke it with a ./minecraft.sh to launch the file.

[rebmobwins]

Originally Posted by Valkkon

Minecraft will run perfectly well on F14 without many modifications.

Just figure out which java you are running by using the 'java -version' command.

[user@localhost]$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_20"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.9.7) (fedora-52.1.9.7.fc14-i386)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 19.0-b09, mixed mode)

From there I just put a small script into the same directory where the 'minecraft.jar' file is located. I called mine 'minecraft.sh'. Just place the following inside the file:

#!/bin/bash
java -jar -Xmx1024M -Xms512M minecraft.jar

Then do a chmod +x minecraft.sh to make it executable and invoke it with a ./minecraft.sh to launch the file.

Sorry, I didn't update this thread. Not too sure WHAT I did, but I managed to get it running perfectly fine. I wish I could add it to the games list under the applications menu though, instead of opening the JAR file.

[Valkkon]

Well you can always just create an application launcher and path it to your script file.

[rebmobwins]

Originally Posted by Valkkon

Well you can always just create an application launcher and path it to your script file.

All good and great, but I still consider myself a Fedora / Linux newbie.

[Valkkon]

Originally Posted by rebmobwins

All good and great, but I still consider myself a Fedora / Linux newbie.

Here is a quick howto on custom application launchers. I still consider myself a non-expert even though I've been using linux since Red Hat linux 3.

http://fedoraproject.org/sv/using/tu.../launcher.html