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I haven't done this in forever, but last time the recommended OpenJDK answer was somehow not right. Got the Oracle one, had to figure out where you extract the tarball to, fix my PATH, yada yada.


^ this was my experience yeah. Though I didn't even bother with the PATH var I just used an absolute path to the damn binary because I was frustrated.


> didn't even bother with the PATH var

That sounds fine though. The PATH variable is a nicety for the user to not need to type long paths, really like using ~ for the home directory, not for program setup.


PATH was the last thing. I was more annoyed that the recommended way of installing Java in Linux is wrong. That wasted like 30min before I realized.


The instructions on and linked from https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server work fine — I downloaded the JAR file, installed OpenJDK 21 as above, and ran the given command.

I'll accept installing and running software on Linux has an unfamiliar procedure for those used to Windows or Mac.




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