On the screen that opens before us we can log in to Minecraft.

If all goes well, you should see the following window. If so, we will solve it with the following script: sudo add-apt-repository universe & sudo apt update & sudo apt install -y libgconf-2-4 Run Minecraft Java Edition It may be that we find that at first it returns the following error: To launch the program, we will have to execute the file marked in the previous capture.

Unzipped this, we go to the folder to be created. Then we will see that we can save or open the compressed file. It is located where indicated in the previous screenshot. We continue by clicking the button Download. Therefore, it can be easily installed.īefore proceeding with the installation, we are going to update the APT package repository cache with the following command in the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T): sudo apt updateīehind this, we will install Open JDK 8 with the following command:Īfter the installation, we can check if JDK is working with the following command:Īrrived here, we can go to the site official website. JDK is available from the official Ubuntu 18.04 LTS package repository. For this reason, to run Minecraft we must have Java Development Kit (JDK) installed on Ubuntu 18.04 machine. Installing Minecraft Java Edition on Ubuntu 18.04 Download from the official website

1.3 Installation using the unofficial PPA.

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Log into your AWS account (Get a free one here - ) and head to your console. I even spent a good hour on the phone to a geek mate Jack Skinner to pick his brains looking at ports and routing, tcp/udp - to no avail.Įventually I managed to crack it - so here's how to get a Minecraft Java Edition Server up and running for the kids using an Amazon Linux 2 AMI EC2 Instance. Very few of them would work, simply because Amazon moves so quickly with the EC2 Instances, it's hard for tutorials to stay relevant.

Java Edition: this is the original version (kept up to date) that allows cross play for Windows, Mac and Linux provided you are using the Java Edition Client.Īfter realising that Franck's tutorial is for Bedrock, and my kids would need Java I tried finding and following various tutorials online.

Bedrock: this is the newer 'unified' version that allows cross platform play for every platform except Mac/Linux using the Bedrock Client.

I found a great tutorial (see link below) from Franck Schmidlin however it was after following this that I learned there are two different types of Minecraft:

Well, we all know one of the joys of Minecraft is playing with your friends on a server - so I set about setting up a safe server space for them all. After a little discussion I discovered that they were all just playing single player and talking about it later. My kids recently asked if they can start playing Minecraft with their friends.

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