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roluan17

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Registered: 2019-04-01

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minecraft on devuan?

Is there a way to install minecraft on dvuan (beowulf) (4.19.208-1, x86_64)

Tried to install java via

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

But I get

 no package openjdk-8-jre

Any ideas?

Head_on_a_Stick

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Registered: 2019-03-24

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Re: minecraft on devuan?

The launcher .deb package for Debian works:

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.

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roluan17

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Registered: 2019-04-01

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Re: minecraft on devuan?

Well,
;-))
good answer!
Whenever I had to do with
-- Billy Boy's products (I do not use them personally since 1995)
--  people using Billy Boy's products
it is as you say:
strange language (translated into german even worse!)
incredible fear of not getting paid as wanted
therefore complete silly security ideas for unimportant areas
bad security concepts, where it would be necessary to have good ones.

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

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: London

Registered: 2019-03-24

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Re: minecraft on devuan?

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

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2021-11-27 13:17:46)

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