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PRs are welcome here: https://github.com/yurikoles-aur/minecraft

Also can't pass the sha256sums validity check.

Also getting sha256sum validation failure.

hi, files are not passing sha256sum validation

==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    Minecraft.deb ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
Error downloading sources: minecraft

PRs are welcome here: https://github.com/yurikoles-aur/minecraft

For anyone who want to use this launcher, it work great up to the 1.14.3. But if you try to play in 1.14.4 or higher than that it wont work.

I just tried running this on Manjaro ARM using openjdk-13, but the following error was generated:

[12:50:42 INFO]: Getting syncinfo for selected version
[12:50:42 INFO]: Queueing library & version downloads
[12:50:42 FATAL]: Unhandled exception in thread Thread[pool-2-thread-2,5,main]
com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: duplicate key: null
    at com.google.gson.internal.bind.MapTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(MapTypeAdapterFactory.java:191) ~[Minecraft.jar:?]
    at com.google.gson.internal.bind.MapTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(MapTypeAdapterFactory.java:146) ~[Minecraft.jar:?]
    at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$1.read(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:93) ~[Minecraft.jar:?]
    at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:172) ~[Minecraft.jar:?]
    at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:795) ~[Minecraft.jar:?]
    at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:761) ~[Minecraft.jar:?]
    at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:710) ~[Minecraft.jar:?]
    at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:682) ~[Minecraft.jar:?]
    at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.RemoteVersionList.getCompleteVersion(RemoteVersionList.java:32) ~[launcher.jar:1.6.89-j]
    at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.MinecraftVersionManager.getLatestCompleteVersion(MinecraftVersionManager.java:213) ~[launcher.jar:1.6.89-j]
    at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.MinecraftVersionManager.getLatestCompleteVersion(MinecraftVersionManager.java:37) ~[launcher.jar:1.6.89-j]
    at com.mojang.launcher.game.runner.AbstractGameRunner.playGame(AbstractGameRunner.java:67) ~[launcher.jar:1.6.89-j]
    at net.minecraft.launcher.game.GameLaunchDispatcher$1.run(GameLaunchDispatcher.java:111) ~[launcher.jar:1.6.89-j]
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128) ~[?:?]
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628) ~[?:?]
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:830) [?:?]

Did this finally stop working? It can't download new versions of Minecraft, gets stuck on "Preparing..."

To respond to the pinned comment, the new launcher is stable, they also have a beta version of it, this is the "legacy" version they no longer recommend, so this should be renamed minecraft-legacy, while the official stable versions should be minecraft and minecraft-beta, to clear it up for anyone wondering why this is still the minecraft package.

This package should depend on gtk2 - as without gtk2 installed, the launcher won't start. See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59904 for basically the same issue for another package.

Really wish Mojang would update their darn launcher to support the new JRE.

As for this package, the default behavior for most AUR helpers is to install the newest JRE greater-or-equal than jre8. While these higher JRE packages allow the launcher to work, they do not let you get in game.

So in other words, the game itself still requires a JRE no higher than 8 to work properly past the launcher. Just something to keep in mind.