{"id":4114,"date":"2014-10-18T13:54:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T13:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2014-10-18T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T13:54:49","slug":"install-minecraft-ubuntu-14-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/install-minecraft-ubuntu-14-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Minecraft in Ubuntu 14.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/minecraft-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/minecraft-logo.jpg\" alt=\"minecraft ubuntu 14.10\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/minecraft-logo.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/minecraft-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Installing Minecraft in Ubuntu is quite easy. All we need to do is install Java, download and run the <b>.jar<\/b> executable from its official website.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.)<\/strong> To get better game experience, you may first install graphics driver for your video card:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For Intel graphics, you&#8217;re good to go with the default open-source driver.<\/li>\n<li>For NVIDIA or AMD graphics, it&#8217;s better to use a proprietary video driver. Open <b>Additional Drivers<\/b> utility from the Unity Dash, select the NVIDIA or AMD driver from the list and install it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2.)<\/strong> For Java, you can either install OpenJDK Java 7 from Ubuntu Software Center or install Oracle Java from PPA.<\/p>\n<p>To install OpenJDK Java 7, click the button below to bring up Ubuntu Software Center and click the <i>install<\/i> button.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='' class='arconix-button arconix-button-large arconix-button-blue'>Click to Install OpenJDK 7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To install Oracle Java, see <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/09\/install-oracle-java-ubuntu-1410\/\" title=\"Install Oracle Java Ubuntu 14.10\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> or just run commands below one by one in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team\/java\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer<\/pre>\n<p><b>3.)<\/b> Once Java Runtime is installed, download the <b>Minecraft.jar<\/b> file from:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/minecraft.net\/download\" target=\"_blank\">Minecraft Download Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>4.)<\/b> Make the <b>Minecraft.jar<\/b> file executable.<\/p>\n<p>To do so, right-click on the file in Nautilus browser and go to its <b>Properties<\/b> windows -> <b>Permissions<\/b> tab and finally check the box where it says &#8220;Allow executing file as program&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-executable.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-executable.jpg\" alt=\"Make Minecraft.jar executable\" width=\"580\" height=\"314\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-executable.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-executable-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>5.)<\/b> Finally start the Minecraft Launcher:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-start.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-start.jpg\" alt=\"MineCraft Launcher\" width=\"600\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-start.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-start-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the launcher opens, log-in with your account and click the <b>Play<\/b> button. After downloading required packages, you&#8217;re finally able to play the game:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"Minecraft in Ubuntu 14.10\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-ubuntu.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/minecraft-ubuntu-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing Minecraft in Ubuntu is quite easy. All we need to do is install Java, download and run the .jar executable from its official website. 1.) To get better game experience, you may first install graphics driver for your video card: For Intel graphics, you&#8217;re good to go with the default open-source driver. For NVIDIA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[835,1084],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-minecraft","tag-ubuntu-14-10"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}