Minecraft Debian Packages
Minecraft is a game. See the official website for more information.
This page is dedicated to the unofficial Debian package I have created. This package downloads and installs the Minecraft beta client and server. This package also installs some wrapper scripts and menu entries in order to make the game more palatable to the average Linux user.
Download the package here: minecraft_0.0.2_all.deb. This package requires the Sun Java 6 JRE package to be installed as well.
You can also setup my onest8.ca apt repo by creating a new file at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onest8.list and putting the following lines in it:
deb http://onest8.ca/debian/ binary/
deb-src http://onest8.ca/debian/ source/
You can then do…
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install minecraft
Enjoy!
Dino Russomano
April 8, 2011 at 8:08 pm
When will you be generating your up coming update? Please keep me knowledgeable.
Kevin C. Krinke
April 18, 2011 at 6:05 pm
As I mentioned in another comment, simply re-install the package. You won’t loose your saved data during that process either.
Sandy Duncan
April 14, 2011 at 5:52 am
Tried using your package…. seemed to work until it made a connection to S3… then I got …
Looking up s3.amazonaws.com
Making HTTPS connection to s3.amazonaws.com
lynx: Can’t access startfile http://minecraft.net/download/minecraft_server.jar?v=1302774585665
dpkg: error processing minecraft (–configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
minecraft
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Kevin C. Krinke
April 18, 2011 at 6:04 pm
I have no idea why it would try to connect to S3 but I’ve tested it several times now without encountering the error. My only guess is that Minecraft’s site uses S3 and they were updating something perhaps.
As an aside, to upgrade to the latest version of Minecraft, simply re-installing the package does the trick.
Joseph
November 2, 2011 at 12:19 am
The site is looking pretty good, feel free to check mine out also here – http://www.minecraft-servers.biz
Ruben Rolland
November 8, 2011 at 2:41 pm
The owner of minecraft can be genius
Dann Ostheimer
November 13, 2011 at 3:59 am
Minecraft is undoubtedly a unique game. I have already been playing it for a time now and I am undecided if I enjoy it. The gameplay takes a different approach, would you guys have any recommendations to spice it up? How about recommending every other servers to relax and play multiplayer? I appreciate your your help!