Setting up Minecraft to work on fedora is pretty easy. You just need to Download it and set up an item for it in the menu. To do this:
Go to your Home Directory, and click on the Cog icon in the top right corner, and Click "New Folder". name this new folder, .minecraft (with a "." in front of the name).
Go to https://minecraft.net/download and download minecraft.jar, and save it to the .minecraft directory that you just created.
Open up "Main Menu" application from the Activities overview. If you don't have the "Main Menu" item, you will need to install it using sudo yum install alacarte 
Select the "Games" category from the left hand pane of Main Menu, and then press the "New Item" button on the right hand side of the window.
In the Create Launcher dialog that appears, enter "Minecraft" in the name Field, and in the Command field, enter:
java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -jar /home/username/.minecraft/minecraft.jar
be sure to change "username" to your username.
There will be a minecraft menu in the Applications area of the overview that will run Minecraft.If this doesnt work, try entering in the command from step 5 into the terminal to see if it works and you have all the paths correct.
Now, when Minecraft runs, you will need to enter in your Minecraft username and password, and it will download all the files into the same .minecraft folder you created earlier.
Note: The Minecraft downloads page does say to use Sun's Java, but Minecraft does run with openJDK (Fedora's default Java environment)
Are there any Known Issues I might encounter with Minecraft on Fedora?
If step 5 doesn't work, just create a executable sh file and put he command in the file. then select that file as executable from properties. You have to select that file later from the command field of the Launcher. It should work..
Oh hi! It does not look like the previous post addresses the installation of java. Make sure that you are running a non-headless version of java.
Try this:
dnf install java-1.8.0-openjdk
I am able to install the game, but I keep on getting this error when trying to load the game. Bug Error printout: If on Windows, make sure to provide all of the necessary dll's as specified in the twitchsdk README. Also, make sure to set the PATH environment variable to point to the directory containing the dll's. #
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i did exactly this it made a launcher but i won't open i tried the command and it won't open. this is what it is on it
[MakeNJoy@localhost ~]$ java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -jar /home/MakeNJoy/.minecraft/minecraft.jar Error: Unable to access jarfile /home/MakeNJoy/.minecraft /minecraft.jar
plz help :(
Asked: 2013-02-24 16:43:49 -0600
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Last updated: Apr 12 '15
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