Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
To install Minecraft, follow these steps:
1.
Make sure that your Raspberry Pi is connected to the Internet. You'll be downloading
Minecraft over your web connection.
2.
Start your Raspberry Pi, type
startx
and press Enter to go into the desktop environment.
3.
Double-click the Midori icon on the desktop or use the Programs menu in the bottom
left to start your browser.
prompted, click Save As to check that you're saving into your
pi
folder. In the ile
browser, it should be highlighted in your Places on the left. Click the Save button.
Close Midori. (You don't need it any more.)
5.
Double-click the LXTerminal icon on the desktop to open a terminal session.
6.
Enter the command
tar -zxvf minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz
to uncompress
the ile you downloaded. Linux is case sensitive, so make sure that you type everything
in lowercase. he last bit of that command is the name of the ile you just downloaded,
so it is likely to change as new versions of Minecraft are released, especially the num-
bers near the end of it. You need to type only the irst few letters of the ilename and
then press the Tab key to have it automatically completed for you, though. As the iles
are uncompressed, you'll see a list of them on-screen. You can see the iles in your
pi
directory by typing in
ls
.
7.
Enter the command
cd mcpi
to go into the folder containing the uncompressed
Minecraft iles.
8.
Type in
./minecraft-pi
and press Enter to start Minecraft.
If all has gone according to plan, you should see the Minecraft title screen appear.
Starting Minecraft
After you've installed Minecraft, the next time you want to play you can start it by going into
the desktop environment (step 2 in the installation instructions in the section “Installing
Minecraft”), opening a terminal session (step 5), and typing in the commands
cd mcpi
and
./minecraft-pi
. It won't work if you try to run Minecraft from the command line with-
out irst going into the desktop environment.
If you close your LXTerminal window, you'll close your Minecraft session immediately too, so
try to ignore that window that doesn't look as if it's doing anything. It is!
