Minecraft server on Ubuntu
From the minecraft-server-properly dept. (9239) (0) by Luis
This is a short article describing how to properly setup a Minecraft server running under Ubuntu desktop under an upstart session for an unprivileged user. For clarity, and brevity, here is the current setup:
- Ubuntu Gnome Desktop 14.04
- Minecraft Server 1.7.x or latest
- Oracle Java 1.7.x get the Java tarball for Linux
After you've downloaded the necessary items, follow these simple steps:
- You'll need to create a Debian package for Oracle's Java by doing the following from Gnome Terminal:
sudo apt-get install java-package # installs Java packager cd ~/Downloads # goes to the directory where you downloaded Java tarball make-jpkg jre-7u60-linux-x64.tar.gz # create .deb package sudo dpkg -i oracle-java7-jre_7u60_amd64.deb # installs Java java -version # verifies current version. Be sure this returns a string like java version "1.7.0_60"
- Create a user account "familia" and set it to automatically login to its desktop (Gnome -> Users. Create user and select to auto-login). Or you may use
sudo adduser familia
from the Gnome Terminal and then switch to this user account to continue setup - Create a directory
~familia/Minecraft
and copy the minecraft server .jar into this directory:mkdir ~familia/Minecraft
- Create a file
~familia/.config/upstart/minecraft.conf
with the following content:
cat > ~familia/.config/upstart/minecraft.conf <<-EOF description "Minecraft server on port 25565" author "Luis Mondesi <lemsx1@gmail.com>" start on desktop-start respawn exec ${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME}/Minecraft/minecraft_server EOF
- You may optionally create the following text files:
touch ~familia/Minecraft/{ops.txt,white-list.txt}
- You will also need to agree to the end-user license by editing the eula.txt file with
eula=true
At this point your server installation is setup. All we need is the wrapper scripts to allow easy access to the service:
- Create a wrapper script for the minecraft_server.jar:
cd ~familia/Minecraft ln -sf minecraft_server.1.7.10.jar minecraft_server.jar cat > minecraft_server <<-EOF #!/bin/bash cd /home/familia/Minecraft && \ # append "nogui" if you want to run it from the terminal without a GUI java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar 2>&1 |zenity --timeout=90 --text-info - cd - EOF
- Make the script executable:
chmod a+rx minecraft_server
- Create a .desktop file:
cat > MinecraftServer.desktop <<-EOF # Minecraft [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Name=Minecraft Server Name[es]=Servidor de Minecraft Comment=Serve Minecraft Comment[es]=Sirve Minecraft GenericName=Minecraft Server Keywords=Internet;Game;Minecraft Exec=/home/familia/Minecraft/minecraft_server Terminal=false X-MultipleArgs=false Type=Application Icon=/home/familia/Minecraft/mc.png #Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser; StartupNotify=false #Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow; EOF
- Be sure to download a nifty icon for your .desktop file and call it mc.png. Example Minecraft icon
- Make the .desktop file executable:
chmod a+rx MinecraftServer.desktop
- Make a link to the desktop with:
ln -s ~familia/Minecraft/MinecraftServer.desktop ~/Desktop/