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The package is outdated only when the bootstrap version you get here is different from the bootstrap version you would get from minecraft.net when using the raw tarball.

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

Unfortunately the deb file is being updated in place and I can't find a link to versioned deb file, so bad checksum means that package was updated. In case you want to solve checksum error yourself just run updpkgsums from community/pacman-contrib.

For anyone having issues with skins tab. just link required libraries to directory where launcher is looking for

sudo mkdir -p /opt/minecraft-launcher/swiftshader
sudo ln -s /lib64/libEGL.so /opt/minecraft-launcher/swiftshader/libEGL.so
sudo ln -s /lib64/libGLESv2.so /opt/minecraft-launcher/swiftshader/libGLESv2.so

SKins are not working. The app says that the system doesn't support WebGL.

I downloaded this launcher for Arch, but I am having the problem that every few seconds the player will turn instantly and be facing in a random direction, basically making the game unplayable. I had the same problem recently in Manjaro and I'm not sure how to fix it.

It seems the launcher requires gconf, which is obsolete and not available in the main Arch repo, to run at all. I tried to remove the dependency from the PKGBUILD but it wouldn't run before installing gconf from AUR.

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.

When i try to execute the launcher in terminal this is what i get :

minecraft-launcher 
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what():  basic_string::_M_construct null not valid
[1]    11433 abort (core dumped)  minecraft-launcher

@milaskiller Try installing it using the official method. Open a terminal and type:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/minecraft-launcher.git
cd minecraft-launcher
makepkg -si

If any errors occur during this process, we are more likely to help you.