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Minecraft

Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox independent video game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed and published by the Swedish company Mojang.

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Installation

Install Java and Minecraft:

sudo eopkg it openjdk-8
sudo mkdir -p /opt/minecraft
sudo wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/Minecraft.jar -O /opt/minecraft/Minecraft.jar

Now we can create a desktop icon for it:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/minecraft.desktop

Paste in the following and save it:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Minecraft
Comment=Minecraft Launcher
Icon=minecraft
Exec=java -jar Minecraft.jar
Path=/opt/minecraft/
NoDisplay=false
Categories=Game;
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false

Now run the following command to regenerate the Budgie menu.

sudo update-desktop-database

You now have a Minecraft entry in Budgie's menu.