We can easily exit the screen and re-attach to it any time. We will get some output and status progress as well as message that it is “done”. # java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui

To create the screen and then start the Minecraft server we need to execute: # screen -S 'Minecraft server' We will run it inside screen, so it will keep running in background all the time. Once it is downloaded, we need to run it. We start with creating directory that we are going to use to keep the Minecraft files: # mkdir minecraft To install screen, we execute the following command: # sudo apt-get install screenĪfter we have installed all prerequisites, it is time to install Minecraft server. It will keep the connection up and running even after closing the console. We will be using it later in order to start the minecraft server. We also need to install screen on our server. If we need to install Java, we need to execute the following command: # sudo apt-get install default-jdk If we don’t have Java, we will get error, like “Command not found” or similar. If Java is installed, we will get message with information about current Java version.

In order to check if we already have in installed, we will execute the following command: # java –version Minecraft server requires java installed on the server. The server hosting Minecraft should have at least 2GB RAM memory, once we are logged in, we should make sure that our repositories are up to date: # sudo apt-get update Setting up minecraft server on your Linux server is simple and straight forward task. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.

It is a game about breaking and placing blocks. Minecraft is popular sandbox indie game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus “Notch” Persson and later developed and published by Mojang.

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