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Offline rawrmehh

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[Solved] Jars/minecraft
« on: November 25, 2012, 02:37:11 AM »
Hey guys... so i have the minecraft.jar file and i have the java sun downloaded on my system, plus i have the jar marked as executable. I cannot for my life find out how to run this thing. Can anyone help?
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Rawr  :)
« Last Edit: November 25, 2012, 11:26:28 AM by rawrmehh »

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Re: Jars/minecraft
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2012, 09:00:13 AM »
In terminal: java -jar minecraft.jar

You may have to make the file executable first with chmod +x minecraft.jar
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Re: Jars/minecraft
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2012, 09:05:59 AM »
it doesn't need to make it executable, or at least i didn't had to make it executable to make it run
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Re: Jars/minecraft
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2012, 09:51:36 AM »
it doesn't need to make it executable, or at least i didn't had to make it executable to make it run

I wasn't sure, so I just mentioned it, just in case :)
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Re: Jars/minecraft
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2012, 11:21:02 AM »
thanks guys it worked!