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MCL-14499

Launcher failing dependency without warning on Linux

Issue

Ran "minecraft-launcher" binary on the terminal and it immediately returned without printing anything or showing anything on screen.

I searched the internet for some minutes and encountered someone saying that it was a missing library (libXScrnSaver on fedora). Don't know how this guy knew it was this exacly library it was missing because my launcher said nothing.

I am using Fedora 30 (tested Gnome on X11 and on Wayland) on an old pc at my mother's. I installed OpenJDK 1.8, downloaded and extracted the most recent minecraft-launcher for generic linux on minecraft.net website.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open terminal on the extracted minecraft-launcher folder

2. Execute minecraft-launcher binary

3. It automatically closes without any information:

$ ./minecraft-launcher

$

What I expected

Any visual indication that something (with a name, such as libxscrnsaver or a file name that I can search on fedora's packages) is missing if it is absolutely necessary. If it isn't, I expected the launcher to work normally without this dependency.

 

I did not find anything about dependencies here on bugs.mojang.com, hopefully this is not a duplicate. Thank you!

Comments 2

Hi there!

Does this issue still occur on the newest version of the Launcher?

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Rafael

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