When downloading the debian installer from minecraft.net, attempting to install the file on ubuntu (and derivatives) 25.10 & later (ive only tested 25.10 and 26.04 beta) the installer fails to install. The problem is identical to MCL-25152. MCL-25152 has been marked as resolved. it is NOT resolved.
below is the error message when trying to install the .deb file from the terminal.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'minecraft-launcher' instead of './Minecraft.deb'
Solving dependencies... Error!
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
minecraft-launcher : Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0) but it is not installable
E: Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
1. minecraft-launcher:amd64=2.1.3 is selected for install
2. minecraft-launcher:amd64 Depends libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0)
but none of the choices are installable:
[no choices]
this bug report is technically a duplicate. however its a duplicate of a bug report that has falsely been marked as resolved.
Environment
ubuntu 25.10 and newer
i should have added to the bug report before submiting. the steps to reproduce this bug are as follows:
have any machine with ubuntu 25.10 installed
download the official minecraft.deb file from the minecraft website
try to install the file
the error will present itself.