Getting started

The Unofficial *NIX Lancher for Minecraft is an unofficial launcher for the Android version the Minecraft Bedrock Edition. It uses uses fake JNI (Java Native Interface) to communicate with Minecraft. Unofficial *NIX Lancher for Minecraft supports x86, x86_64, armhf, and arm64 versions of Minecraft on both Linux and MacOS

Installation

Linux

The Unofficial *NIX Lancher for Minecraft can be installed in many ways, however the primary method of installation is with the Appimage

AppImage

Prebuilt linux AppImages are available on AppImage Builder on Github After downloading simply open terminal, chmod +x Minecraft_Bedrock_Launcher-*.AppImage and run it. With some Filemanagers you should be able to run it with double click, similar to running a *.exe file on Windows. Otherwise run it from a Terminal ./Minecraft_Bedrock_Launcher-*.AppImage

Updating

To Upgrade, simply remove the old appimage and download the new version using the above steps

Startmenu Integration

If it's your first time you have installed an AppImage and you want an Icon in your startmenu

• install AppImageLauncher
• run the AppImage like before
• AppImageLauncher will ask you to integrate it, press yes
• You can now start and update the Launcher directly from your startmenu

Flatpak

You can also install mcpelauncher on Linux via Flathub. To install it, first setup Flatpak then run

Install / Update System Wide

sudo flatpak install flathub io.mrarm.mcpelauncher

To update the launcher if already installed you can run this command

sudo flatpak update

Install / Update User

flatpak install --user flathub io.mrarm.mcpelauncher

To update the launcher if already installed you can run this command

flatpak update

Run

If it's your first time you have installed a Flatpak please logout from your Computer and sign back in to be able to find the Launcher inside your startmenu.

To run it from a Terminal, run

flatpak run io.mrarm.mcpelauncher

If it doesn't start you can enable debug logging like this

flatpak run io.mrarm.mcpelauncher -v

Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora repo

How to add the apt or rpm repository.

Once added you can install the mcpelauncher-manifest, mcpelauncher-ui-manifest and msa-manifest packages to install the launcher system wide.

Debian / Ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt install mcpelauncher-manifest mcpelauncher-ui-manifest msa-manifest

Fedora

sudo dnf install mcpelauncher-manifest mcpelauncher-ui-manifest msa-manifest

Arch User Repository (AUR) Package

Unofficial packages for Arch Linux users can be installed on the AUR, both client and Qt launcher. You can install using an appropriate AUR helper such as yay.

yay -S mcpelauncher-linux mcpelauncher-ui

Run

You can find it in the startmenu or run the following command

mcpelauncher-ui-qt

If it doesn't start you can enable debug logging like this

mcpelauncher-ui-qt -v

macOS

Prebuilt macOS binary's are currently available here. Always copy the App to a writeable location otherwise the updater won't work.

Source build

If there are no packages available for your distribution or you want to compile, check out the Source Build guide.