DarkWav / Minecraft-Installer-RPM

Unofficial Minecraft installer for Fedora and openSUSE

Minecraft-Installer-RPM

Unofficial Minecraft installer for Fedora and openSUSE

This is just a quick script to package the official Minecraft launcher into
a rpm package based on the official AUR build script.

Used Libraries:
* The AUR repo
* The Official Minecraft Launcher
* My Unofficial Specfile

While the Script and the Specfile are released under the GGPLv3 all other libraries are still properties of their respective owners!

Requirements:

• A working Java Installation (preferrably Java 8)
• A working Internet Connection
  
• The following commands must be available:

  rpmbuild
  wget
  tar
  bash

Installing dependencies in openSUSE (Terminal):

sudo zypper in rpm-build wget bsdtar bash

Installing dependencies in Fedora (Terminal):

sudo dnf in rpm-build wget bsdtar bash

Usage:

1. Download minecraft-installer.sh
2. Open a Terminal at the location where you downloaded the Installer
3. Make the Installer executable (Type in Terminal):

chmod +x minecraft-installer.sh

4. Run the Installer (Type in Terminal):

./minecraft-installer.sh

5. If you want to install a Launcher Update, just run the Installer again
6. To uninstall the Launcher, run

sudo rpm -e minecraft-launcher

7. Have fun!

Disclaimer:

I am not responsible for any harm or damage this script might do to your computer.
While it is possible for this script to work on RHEL / CentOS / SLE / PCLinuxOS / openMandriva / Mageia it is only guaranteed to do so with Fedora and openSUSE.

Current Status for non-supported distros:

• RHEL: Working
• CentOS: Working
• SLE: Working
• PCLinuxOS: BORKED (libcef.so dependency issue)
• Mageia: Working
• openMandriva: Not Tested