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Perhaps not unrelated (since the error is labeled "Minecraft updater"), But I'm wondering if you have thoughts or workarounds. Issue with Minecraft in a multi-user environment, so it's not an issue with It seems that this is related to permissions, because if I chown -R theĪpp to the user who will run it, it works fine. Unable to start Minecraft, if you are running from a dmg, please drag to On Tue, at 12:19 PM, jakerundall I uses this recipe (via ) to install Minecraft, Similarly to what I did for MinecraftEdu.įor now, this will languish a bit until I find the time to address it. Launch agent that copies the appropriate pieces into the user's Library, The best solution I've found for mass-deployment is still to put up a User of the system, and doesn't even pretend to work with multiple users. To deploy Minecraft, this is not a priority for me.Īnnoyingly, Minecraft still assumes that it's installing for the only Pull Minecraft from my repo until that's ready to go. I have a work in progress solution, but it might be better for me to simply Since I wrote this recipe this method simply doesn't work anymore. Unfortunately, Minecraft has completely changed how the installer works
In that case, there's not a lot of hope for Minecraft in a multi-user environment, unless you want to make it writable by everyone or install it per user.įinally, I'm wondering if a custom Launcher would be possible for this app, similar to what you've designed for MinecraftEdu. With the "Updating Minecraft" step showing up, it seems likely that Minecraft requires that the current user have write permissions on the app so that it can be updated. I'll also add that when I manually download and install the current Minecraft app (v285, chown'd to my standard user who is running it), it goes through the following setup steps: I'm not sure where the "runtime" and "Launcher" components come from.
So maybe the answer is simply updating the to get the newer version of the app and the supporting files? The app itself seems to be available from. Perhaps not unrelated (since the error is labeled "Minecraft updater"), this recipe is downloading/installing an app with CFBundleShortVersionString = 272 while the current version (from ) has CFBundleShortVersionString = 285. I believe this is a known issue with Minecraft in a multi-user environment, so it's not an issue with this recipe, per se. It seems that this is related to permissions, because if I chown -R the app to the user who will run it, it works fine. Unable to start Minecraft, if you are running from a dmg, please drag to Applications and try again When I uses this recipe (via ) to install Minecraft, the app will not open.