Minecraft (ebuild to build deps from source!)

Phluffy · n00b Joined: 08 Dec 2008 Posts: 39 Location: Englewood, Co

Minecraft 1.4.2 is out

Is this still maintained?
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Phluffy

cohone · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 113

Ant P. · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 1920 Location: UK

For the server you can just rename the ebuild (and have to, since upstream recycles URLs for each version).

Zolcos · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2012 Posts: 25

Ant P. · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 1920 Location: UK

HyperQuantum · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 88

When installing the latest ebuild of minecraft-server from the overlay (1.3.2), I get a distfile fetch error. Reason for this is that the SRC_URI for the ebuild points to the latest, unversioned, download of the minecraft server, which is no longer 1.3.2.

How can I easily fix this problem? I'd like to have the latest version of the server, not 1.3.2. Is it only a matter of recalculating the ebuild digest or something?

Ant P. · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 1920 Location: UK

The ebuild in java-overlay points to an unversioned URL. Here's a fix:

HyperQuantum · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 88

I had already 'solved' the problem with a hack:

Chewi · Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 9:03 pm Post subject:

I've actually just updated the overlay and made the SRC_URI change. Sorry for the trouble but the fact is I don't play the game any more.

Chewi · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 10:19 pm Post subject:

The Bukkit ebuilds have been updated. Many thanks to Robert Förster for doing the work and adding a systemd enchancement. It was a simple bump this time but you never know that until you try it.

cravengemetzel · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 40

Hi, I had installed Minecraft via Wine and started a thread because I found it ridiculously slow and unplayable, to which it was suggested that I install minecraft from the java-overlay. I did this, attempted to log in with my credentials, where the launcher told me that it was not downloaded (as expected). I checked out the installation folder, ~/.minecraft and compared it with the folder that Wine installed it into, found that it had a few similar files in ~/.minecraft, ~/.minecraft/bin and ~/.minecraft/natives, but that many were missing so I copied the missing files from the Wine installation to the ~/.minecraft folder (I have no idea if this was the proper way of doing this), leaving ~/.minecraft/bin/lwgl.jar and ~/.minecraft/bin/natives untouched as these were already installed (so I assumed that this was the part that was compiled natively for linux).

Minecraft is launching, but it is still just as slow and unplayable as it was with Wine. This isn't due to low hardware specs as my laptop is a beast (quad-core cpu, 8gb ram, 2gb dedicated DDR3 memory for graphics). What should I do? Thanks.

EDIT: I posted a thread with more specific information about about my problem here
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7261770.html#7261770

Yminus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 144

I am completely new to minecraft and I do not know how to get it started.

I emerged the minecraft ebuild and

Chewi · Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 7:32 am Post subject:

I forget the exact process now, it's been so long. Have you actually bought the game? It's not free! You don't need to manually download anything, that's what the ebuild is for.