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I seem to be having a different issue than what others are describing. Suddenly today, I an unable to start the launcher without getting a generic "An unexpected issue occurred" message. Here's what I get in the terminal:

$ minecraft-launcher
sh: line 1: orca: command not found
Created browser window for reuse: 0x1600004
[34399:34552:0308/133050.212343:ERROR:mime_util_xdg.cc(137)] Invalid mime.cache file does not contain null prior to ALIAS_LIST_OFFSET=44
[34399:34552:0308/133055.416488:ERROR:cast_crl.cc(443)] CRL - Verification failed.

Edit: I found that deleting the webcache2 directory in the .minecraft directory fixes the issue for me.

The package version is the version of the launcher bootstrap - the part that actually downloads and updates the launcher.

That means the version number of the actual launcher (2.x.xxx) is different from the version here (9xx+) on a fundamental level, and should not be compared.

The package is outdated only when the bootstrap version you get here is different from the bootstrap version you would get from minecraft.net when using the raw tarball.

I suspect the underlying problem is that Mojang update their "staging" tar, but do not create versioned release archives. Therefore this package is stuck on the latest (broken) release 2.0.579, while Minecraft_staging.tar.gz stays updated and keeps working.

IMO Mojang need to improve the way they handle this, preferably by creating more releases and keeping this package in sync with them. Otherwise we are forced to use packages such as minecraft-launcher-tar that try to keep in sync with the (fully functional) staging build.

@SuperGeniusZeb I added gconf to the dependencies and updated Minecraft to the latest version. Thank you :)

It's impossible to run this because it depends on a old version of icu.

It's been over a year since the initial linux beta release, and almost half a year since the last update. Any news on an official release?

The source URL needs to be changed, more info here: https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/981978843178323968

You can pin your comment and hopefully then it will stand out so no more out of date flags.

Ok this is still getting flagged as out of date so I'll explain it again:

This package is the official stable package you get when you go through the Minecraft website, which still points to "http://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/launcher/Minecraft.jar"

If you want the new launcher check the https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minecraft-launcher package that is maintained by Mojang themselves.

And if you want this package to be the new launcher, just ask Mojang why 2.x is not deemed stable yet and if it is if they could update their links on the official website.

I trust that in time I will be able to update this package to the latest launcher but right now it will stay on this version.

Thank you for your understanding.

I tried to run this on a fresh Antergos installation and I got this error:

"./launcher: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

This file, which should be located at "/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4", is provided by the gconf package, which is not listed as a dependency of this package.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gconf/

Simply add the gconf package as a dependency and that should fix the problem.

@Leafeon thank you, I added it :)

Please dont force installation of java 8, Minecraft runs very well with java 9 by removing "-XX:+CMSIncrementalMode" from profile startup arguments.

Set it to java-runtime>=8 and leave a comment telling java 9 users about the startup argument.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minecraft/?comments=all