In this article, we are going to install a\u00a0Minecraft server<\/strong>\u00a0on an\u00a0Ubuntu<\/strong>. Make sure that you are logged in under a user that isn’t the root user, as running this server as root can be unsafe.<\/p>\n

In order to run a Minecraft server, we need\u00a0Java 1.7<\/strong>\u00a0to be installed on the server. To install Java 1.7, run the following commands:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Now, we are going to download the Minecraft server via\u00a0wget<\/code>. If you don’t have\u00a0wget<\/code>\u00a0installed, then you can install it via\u00a0sudo apt-get install wget<\/code>. Replace\u00a01.10.2<\/code>\u00a0with the current release of Minecraft.<\/p>\n
wget https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/Minecraft.Download\/versions\/1.10.2\/minecraft_server.1.10.2.jar\r\nchmod +x minecraft_server.jar\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
The Minecraft install is complete. Accept the license agreement.<\/p>\n
echo \"eula=true\" > eula.txt\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
You can now start your Minecraft server via the following command:<\/p>\n
java -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
This command starts the\u00a0Minecraft server<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a01024MB RAM<\/strong>\u00a0allocated. How to allocate more RAM to Minecraft server is easy. Simply change the\u00a0-Xmx<\/code>\u00a0and\u00a0-Xms<\/code>\u00a0attributes in the command.<\/p>\n
In case you want the server to run in the background, you can install screen:<\/p>\n
apt-get install screen\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
To start the\u00a0Minecraft server<\/strong>\u00a0in screen, open a screen instance, then run the Java command again.<\/p>\n
screen\r\njava -Xmx1024M -Xms1024M -jar minecraft_server.jar nogui\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
To exit out of the screen window, press\u00a0CTRL + A<\/strong>, then\u00a0d<\/strong>. If you want to open the window again, use the command\u00a0screen -r<\/code>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","manualknowledgebasecat":[105],"manual_kb_tag":[181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/manual_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2246\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"manualknowledgebasecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manualknowledgebasecat?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"manual_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb_tag?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}