ARM64, Which Java to install for Minecraft Server on Raspberry Pi 4B

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#1

Hello, I am new to Linux and I just got a Raspberry Pi with the hopes of installing a local Minecraft server for my LAN.

I really don’t know anything about Linux other than I watched some youtube videos when choosing a distro and I really liked the concept of Arch/Manjaro and the way Pacman works.

After a fresh install & using SSH to configure timezone, kb layout, my user info, hostname, etc; I did the following:

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S binutils make gcc pkg-config fakeroot
sudo pacman -S git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/package-query.git
cd package-query
makepkg -si
cd ..

But now trying to actually install minecraft-server is causing me confusion.

On the website I click “view PKBUILD” and it says:

arch=(‘any’)
...
depends=(‘java-runtime-headless>=8’ ...

But then I search “java-runtime-headless” on the AUR website and I am presented with several results, but I think the correct package is jre because it says:

Provides: java-runtime=13, java-runtime-headless=13, java-runtime-headless-jre=13, java-runtime-jre=13

The problem I notice is that if you click “view PKBUILD” it says:

arch=(‘x86_64’)

How can I use this on the ARM64 Raspberry Pi? Perhaps I’m doing everything wrong and looking at the wrong packages. Could someone please help me out? Thank you.

#2

You should be able to install the Java runtime directly from the Manjaro ARM repo:
sudo pacman -S jre-openjdk-headless

#3

Oh wow I didn’t know that it was an official
Manjaro package, thanks so much!

#4

Hi by chance, is there a searchable webpage for the Manjaro ARM packages, or do you look up everything through pacman -Ss?

#5

Not for Manjaro ARM as such, but we get most of our packages from Arch Linux ARM, which has a very good package search webpage at archlinuxarm.org/packages.

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#6

Thank you Strit for the resource. I will try to install Minecraft using this Java package tonight and report back.

#7

Well after I used your command to install Java, I was able to install minecraft-server from the AUR using:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/minecraft-server.git
cd minecraft-server
makepkg -si
cd ..

Everything seems good so thanks for your help!

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