Setting Up Minecraft in Fedora

First download the Sun/Oracle JRE from their web site in RPM format. The JRE in Fedora does not work. You have to get the one from Sun.

Install it:

yum install ./jre-7u55-linux-x64.rpm

Create a directory for it:

mkdir -p /opt/minecraft/client/

Download the software from here:

cd /opt/minecraft/client/
wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftDownload/launcher/minecraft.jar

Download the icon:

wget -O icon.png http://www.minecraftwiki.net/images/c/c5/Grass.png

Create a desktop icon to run it. Do this as the user you want to see the icon.

cd ~/.local/share/applications
vi minecraft.desktop

Now put the following in the minecraft.desktop file:

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Minecraft
GenericName=Minecraft
Comment=Sandbox mining game
Exec=/usr/java/jre1.7.0_55/bin/java -Xmx1024M -Xms512M -cp /opt/minecraft/client/minecraft.jar net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap
Icon=/opt/minecraft/client/icon.png
Terminal=false
Categories=Application;Game
Type=Application

It should now show in your installed Applications under Games.