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The package is outdated only when the bootstrap version you get here is different from the bootstrap version you would get from minecraft.net when using the raw tarball.

You can work around the issue for now with env GDK_BACKEND=x11 minecraft-launcher instead. The issue is tracked here: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCL-12215.

It would probably be handy if the minecraft-launcher.desktop was updated to include this workaround for now.

Alternatively:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/
cp /usr/share/applications/minecraft-launcher.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
sed -i 's/Exec=/Exec=env GDK_BACKEND=x11 /g' ~/.local/share/applications/minecraft-launcher.desktop

Now you can start Minecraft Launcher as usual and keep updating this package as your definition of minecraft-launcher.desktop will override the one shipped with the package.

@ruabmbua @dlins @nunomartins here's the error on Wayland (sway for me) with 2.1.7658:

$ minecraft-launcher

(minecraft-launcher:63405): Gdk-WARNING **: 19:39:30.017: ../gtk/gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.c:5633 drawable is not a native X11 window

@ruabmbua I can confirm as well. Seems broken on GNOME Wayland; running it on X works fine, though. I further tested the beta version with the same results.

@ruabmbua Yes I have the same problem. A downgrade to an previous version works for me.

Does not launch any more. Does anyone else have the same problem. I get no errors, the "gnome launcher" shows the icon, but the window does not appear.

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

Indeed it shouldn't be out of date. Also the linux launcher should have auto update check disabled because the (undisclosed beta) version pops up every time you open the launcher.

I'm still not seeing why this is even flagged out of date. Latest stable version is 2.1.5965, while beta is 2.1.5969. A user got a message in their launcher and blindly flagged this without verifying (Settings -> About) that this is indeed the latest launcher, released July 23rd: https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Launcher_2.1.596x . Use beta if you need an update.

this needs to be updated.

@ywecur @Hoid For me the problem was that (in KDE Plasma) I'd selected a language/region combination that's not an installed locale on my system (specifically: en_NL.UTF-8 - english language system with region set to the Netherlands). I think the breakage was introduced with other recent updates. A work-around is to apply another locale when launching Minecraft:

LC_ALL=C minecraft-launcher

You can use any enabled locale instead of C. For those who, like me, picked en_NL in the desktop settings, I've added an AUR package locale-en-nl-git which can help too.