Setting up ComputerCraft on Ubuntu 16.04

Note : I chose 16.04 over 16.10(or any other Linux distro for that matter) as it is an LTS release and so will most downloaded(plus you can always back-port Unity 8 into 16.04), but the procedure should be similar, if not the same.

WARNING : Do not reboot/cold reset/ your computer halfway through installing java

They are 2 ways to set up ComputerCraft on Ubuntu 16.04

Setting up CCEmuRedux

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Step 1: Download it(Search CCEmuRedux in the forums)
Step 2: Make sure you have Java installed(your best bet to do this is to install Minecraft by download the Ubuntu MATE Welcome Screen and downloading Minecraft through the games section)
Step 3: Mark the .jar file as executable in the permissions tab in the properties
Step 4: Run the .jar file
Step 5(optional): When the launcher is still up, right click the icon and select "Add to dash" or "Lock to launcher"


Using Forge

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Step 1: Make sure Minecraft is installed
Step 2: Make sure you have downloaded Forge
Step 3: Mark the Forge installer as executable in the perimissions tab in the properties
Step 4: Run the Forge installer
Step 5: Go to your home folder
Step 6: Turn on hidden folders by right clicking and selecting show hidden folders
Step 7: Go to .minecraft/mods
Step 8: Download and copy the computercraft.jar file into the mods folder

Is this serious? This is literally the same for every Linux distro with java and an X server

Getting Java using this method is kind of a "hack". Just use a more dev-friendly distro like Arch and install the latest Java package. (In Ubuntu) You can even add the Aptitude repositories if Java isn't part of the standard ones.

ubuntu loads… and it loads… … …still loads.

nothing happens, although once it asked for a username and password.. which obviously i do not know since i never came to the point of setting one up?

now its 4am and im staring basicly at a blank screen…

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Davidkak, on 25 December 2016 - 10:13 PM said:

ubuntu loads… and it loads… … …still loads.

nothing happens, although once it asked for a username and password.. which obviously i do not know since i never came to the point of setting one up?

now its 4am and im staring basicly at a blank screen…

.

Reboot your computer…