Download from the official Minecraft website: Minecraft.tar.gz
It is available under the name "Other Distributions"

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download

Extract it to the $HOME/.minecraft directory:

mkdir $HOME/.minecraft
tar xzf ~/Downloads/Minecraft.tar.gz -C ~/.minecraft

Run it with:
${HOME}/.minecraft/minecraft-launcher/minecraft-launcher

You can also add this command to a script in your user directory, for example: .local/bin/run_Minecraft.sh

It's also useful to install gnome-keyring, then there are no issues with logging in.

By the way, Minecraft is paid and requires an Outlook.com account. Without it, you wont be able to play.

I have tested and this is running on Devuan 6.

This is what I've done to solve the problem!

    Unpack the original .deb package:

mkdir src/
dpkg-deb -R Minecraft.deb src/

    Open the file DEBIAN/control:

cd src/
nvim DEBIAN/control

    Replace libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 with libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0.

    Create again the .deb package:

dpkg-deb -b --root-owner-group . ~/Minecraft-fixed.deb

    And install it!

sudo apt install ~/Minecraft-fixed.deb

How do I find out, what old hardware means?
How can I test if OpenGl4.4 will run?

Just install the .deb and run the launcher. If the hardware is not supported you will see an error message asking you to update the drivers.

Your i7-6500U should be fine but my grand-child is using a ThinkPad X201 and that lost support for the latest update to Minecraft. And I paid for the damn game as well. Bugger. It still works on the Nintendo Switch though.

EDIT: use this to see which OpenGL versions are running:

glxinfo -B

The command can be found in the mesa-utils package.

EDIT2: https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/ … phics.html

People using it seem to have undergone some kind of brain washing (no wonder).

Anyway, my daughter spent money on that game ! And she was not d'accord, that Billy bought minecraft.

How do I find out, what old hardware means?
How can I test if OpenGl4.4 will run?
My daughter's machine:
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-3470 bits: 64 type: MCP
  L2 cache: 6144 KiB
  Speed: 1597 MHz min/max: 1600/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1614 2: 1628
  3: 1635 4: 1628

inxi -m
  System RAM: total: 15.52 GiB used: 1.48 GiB (9.6%)

There is another one:

RAM :7,66GiB

CPU:
Intel Core i7-6500U 64 bits 3000 Mhz

Thanks in advance

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download

But the latest version of Minecraft requires OpenGL 4.4 so it won't work on older hardware. Microsoft really are utter twats.

Tried to install java via

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

But I get

 no package openjdk-8-jre

Any ideas?