If you're on Gentoo and trying to play minecraft, this guide is for you. +This is a modified version from here. +However for completeness sake, I'll have the entire guide here too.
+ +First you need to install icedtea, a FOSS JVM. To install it, emerge it
+ +sudo emerge icedtea+ +
That might take a while to emerge. Once its done, set is as the default +system JVM
+ ++ sudo eselect java-vm list; + sudo eselect java-vm system+ ++
Of course substitute the number for the list entry that says icedtea. If you +want to only set this for your user, don't use sudo.
+ +Now download the executable file for minecraft. Its on mojangs site, but +this should +be a link to it as of this writing
+ +Now extract it to wherever you would like minecraft to live on your +system
+ ++ tar xvf Minecraft.tar.gz; + cd minecraft-launcher ++ +
Now that you've cd'd into the launcher folder, run the minecraft-lancher. +You may run into an error along the lines of
+ ++ MessageBox(Minecraft Launcher): Couldn't load launcher core from + /home/USER/.minecraft/launcher/liblauncher.so: LoadErrorNotPresent ++ +
If you poke around you'll find that shared object file exists and lives in +the right place, it just seems to be linking against non existant libraries, +but that's OK. (On a unrelated note, its very interesting that the launcher is +an electron app that also forces itself to live in your home directory. Just +thought that was interesting)
+ +So you need to install the correct libraries for minecraft to load, and its +looking for libsecret. So we can emerge that
+ ++ sudo emerge app-crypt/libsecret ++ +
On my system it pulled in 3 other dependencies, so your mileage on may vary +on how much it pulls in. Now all you have to do is pull in.
+ +After this all you have to do is run the launcher, sign in and it should +work right out of the box! Hope this was helpful, and have fun!
+ +
+