Minecraft Forge Tutorial

How To Install Setup Minecraft Forge on Linux

This tutorial was based on running Minecraft Forge in a Debian wheezy installation, but it should work with any other Linux system. I did this for my son and his friends. I haven't tested it in years. Posting for posterity.

• Download the latest version of Oracle Java JRE. Download the tar.gz file version.
• Download and install java-package
• edit /usr/share/java-package/oracle-j2re.sh
  • add the following

      "jre-8u"[0-9][0-9]"-linux-i586.tar.gz") # SUPPORTED
          j2se_version=1.8.0+update${archive_name:6:2}${revision}
          j2se_expected_min_size=94 #Mb
          j2se_priority=316
          found=true
          ;;

• make the Java package
• type make-jpkg jre-8u77-linux-i586.tar.gz
  • confirmed working as of 3/26/2016 on Wheezy
• download forge-1.8.9-11.15.1.1722-installer.jar
• run the installer java -jar forge-1.8.9-11.15.1.1722-installer.jar --installServer
• edit eula.txt change line eula=true
• type java -Xmx2G -Xms2G -jar forge-1.8.9-11.15.1.1722-universal.jar to run the game
• Login to server and enjoy

Resources

• Minecraft Forge