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Can add/make the game launch with a launch script to the package that changes the runescape cache folder location so it puts it in the .config folder instead of the main home folder, example code:

RL_DIR="/home/$USER/.config/Runelite/jagexcache"

if [ -z _JAVA_OPTIONS ] ; then
    _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Duser.home=\"$RL_DIR\""
else
    _JAVA_OPTIONS="$_JAVA_OPTIONS -Duser.home=\"$RL_DIR\""
fi
export _JAVA_OPTIONS

java -jar /usr/share/runelite/RuneLite.jar

This would make it less messy for the user and hide the cache folder in a better location. :)

If you get any error while trying to launch it, set your systems java status to another version. java-14-openjdk worked for me.

This package should probably be merged with runelite-launcher since they both ship the launcher jar. And to nitpick: jar files should go to /usr/share/java.

Edit: The license isn't installed properly, it should be a file in /usr/share/licenses/runelite.

@uzichan You need to install a compatible (>=11) version of java-runtime

ok so it wont even boot up and i get this:

Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try again Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: net/runelite/launcher/Launcher has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:756) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:468) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:74) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:369) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:363) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:362) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:352) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351) at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:495)

@zangoku instead of building this package try the "runelite" package from the aur, or install with the app image from their site or on lutris this one doesn't build for me but "runelite" did just fine, I used "java-8-openjdk" just in case

@nijhanley That does not fix the issue. I am still getting maven errors when trying to update.

@zangoku You need to change your default Java environment. Example: # archlinux-java set java-13-openjdk

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Java#Switching_between_JVM

Still unable to update even with the new version

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.1:compile (default-compile) on project launcher: Fatal error compiling: invalid flag: --release -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().