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Xywa
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 3:43 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] Minecraft for Linux Gentoo Reply with quote

Hi,

I am trying to run Minecraft without success.

I have done bellow from this website:
http://minecraft.net/download

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Minecraft for Linux / Other

Download Minecraft.jar (86 KB). The jar is executable and should work as-is, also please use Oracle's JVM.


and I have this:
Code:
$ ./Minecraft.jar
./Minecraft.jar: line 1: $'PK\003\004': command not found
./Minecraft.jar: line 2: $'\b\b\222t\354B\002': command not found
./Minecraft.jar: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
K-*��ϳR0�3���M���u�I,.�R�K-����KM.JL+�K��/).)J,�s��x�x�PK'K-.�


Code:
# eselect java-vm list
Available Java Virtual Machines:
  [1]   icedtea-bin-7
  [2]   oracle-jre-bin-1.7  system-vm


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You should probably play another game. Proprietary software is bad, especially on a Gentoo distro.

Maybe you could try Minetest, it's an open-source clone of Minecraft.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're trying to execute a jar file. Have you remembered to set up binfmt_misc to handle it appropriately?
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ant P. wrote:
You're trying to execute a jar file. Have you remembered to set up binfmt_misc to handle it appropriately?


Many thanks [SOLVED] I should run it this way:
Code:
java -jar Minecraft.jar




jvp777 wrote:
You should probably play another game. Proprietary software is bad, especially on a Gentoo distro.
Maybe you could try Minetest, it's an open-source clone of Minecraft.


Thanks!
I love free software and I had no idea about Minetest, I will try now as my Minecraft crashes all the time (intel driver), and I cannot try to use it with bumblebed and nvidia drivers, as there are again problems with nvidia and kernel 3.11.0.

Which one is the proper game?
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* games-action/minetest
Latest version available: 0.4.7
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 2,710 kB
Homepage: http://minetest.net/
Description: An InfiniMiner/Minecraft inspired game
License: LGPL-2.1+ CC-BY-SA-3.0

* games-action/minetest_build
Latest version available: 0.4.6
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 4 kB
Homepage: https://github.com/minetest/build
Description: Building game for the Minetest game engine
License: GPL-2 CC-BY-SA-3.0

* games-action/minetest_common
Latest version available: 0.4.6
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 452 kB
Homepage: https://github.com/minetest/common
Description: Common game content mods, for use in various Minetest games
License: GPL-2 CC-BY-SA-3.0

* games-action/minetest_game
Latest version available: 0.4.7
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 630 kB
Homepage: http://github.com/minetest/minetest_game
Description: The main game for the Minetest game engine
License: GPL-2 CC-BY-SA-3.0

* games-action/minetest_survival
Latest version available: 0.4.6
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 4 kB
Homepage: https://github.com/minetest/survival
Description: Survival game for the Minetest game engine
License: GPL-2 CC-BY-SA-3.0
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Xywa wrote:
Which one is the proper game?
Read the descriptions. ;)

(minetest is the game engine, the others are the different content mods for it, with minetest_game described as: "The main game for the Minetest game engine")
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 2:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the java-overlay has minecraft package.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

cj.wijtmans wrote:
the java-overlay has minecraft package.


I solved the problem with Minecraft just by not touching anything in CONTROLS settings (for keyboard) - so I have any crashes now and system works pretty well on my 64 bit Gentoo with Nvidia Optimus just by run:
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$ optirun java -jar Minecraft.jar


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PostPosted: Fri Sep 20, 2013 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can increse framerate on laptops with Nvidia Optimus just by using primus instead of optirum (from bumblebee). With max details and far view, I had 40 fps with optirun and 65fps with primus.

Usage:
Code:
$ primusrun java -jar Minecraft.jar



Some more details here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-970436.html
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