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The package is outdated only when the bootstrap version you get here is different from the bootstrap version you would get from minecraft.net when using the raw tarball.

It would be very cool if you implemented the changes suggested by @chenjunyu19 into the PKGBUILD.

The latest version is now 2.1.2464. Change your PKGBUILD variables as follows: pkgver=2.1.12464 Change the first sha256sum to: 63bc6f0b8f8a387f7f49da8f75466502ef226777221e877e9c842b1a76702fcd

Accidentally deleted my previous comment. Basically said that that's all we need to do here as well, just the author isn't around to bump the version at the moment. I've emailed him and we'll see if he's able to update it.

Is there a reason we are not just modifying the version, like the GitKraken package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gitkraken/ , in the PKGBUILD?

A new version was just pushed. Until the AUR is updated, you can set the pkgver to 2.1.12308.

@Feakster This minecraft launcher isn't a jar file like the old one was, it's an Electron linux x86_64 executable. True enough that the jar file was more portable between architectures

The older version of this launcher at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/minecraft/ had arch=(any) set in the PKGBUILD file. Is there a reason this build needs arch=('x86_64') set? I thought part of the point of java was that it could be cross-platform and cross-architecture.

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) [?:?]

From Google Translate:

For me, as of version 2.1.11314-1, skin management is still not working. By looking at the terminal output, you can see that the launcher is missing some library files.

To solve this problem, first make sure that you have the libglvnd package installed, and then you can use the following command to link the libraries in your system into theminecraft-launcher folder.

Alternatively, if you have other CEF / Electron applications (such as visual-studio-code-bin), you can simply copy the swiftshader folder from these applications into the minecraft-launcher folder.

中文原文：

对于我来说，截至版本 2.1.11314-1，皮肤管理仍不能正常工作。通过观察终端输出，你可以发现启动器缺少了一些库文件。

要解决这个问题，首先确保你已经安装了 libglvnd 软件包，然后可以使用下面的命令将系统中的库链接到 minecraft-launcher 文件夹中。

或者，如果你有其他 CEF / Electron 应用程序（例如 visual-studio-code-bin），你可以简单地将这些应用程序中的 swiftshader 文件夹复制到 minecraft-launcher 文件夹中。

# mkdir /opt/minecraft-launcher/swiftshader
# ln -s /usr/lib/libEGL.so /opt/minecraft-launcher/swiftshader/
# ln -s /usr/lib/libGLESv2.so /opt/minecraft-launcher/swiftshader/