Minecraft Pi on Raspbian Buster

Question

I have a Raspberry Pi B which is running Raspbian Buster (installed through NOOBS). I am trying to run Minecraft on it. I have downloaded the Pi version of Minecraft from the Minecraft website, unzipped it and am running ./minecraft-pi in the mcpi directory. I am getting the following error

./minecraft-pi: error while loading shared libraries: libGLESv2.so: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

I have done a bit of Googling and have tried

• sudo apt-get install libgles2
• Uninstalling, cleaning, and reinstalling python-pygame
• Running LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/vc/lib ./minecraft-pi (I have looked in the /opt/vc/lib directory and can see libGLESv2_static.a but no libGLESv2.so)
• Navigating to the minecraft-pi file in the GUI desktop and choosing execute from the menu

None of the above have worked and I'm now stumped. My LINUX knowledge is still in its infancy so please keep answers simple or with an explanation.

Answer 1

Run this command:

sudo apt install -y minecraft-pi

Or install via the main menu (Preferences -> Recommended Software -> Games) as @CoderMike mentioned.

Downloading minecraft-pi-0.1.1.tar.gz directly provided most of what's needed but it doesn't include all dependencies, which APT takes care of.

Answer 2

The latest version of Minecraft (java) that can be played on 32bit Raspbian Buster is 1.12.2

Here is my tutorial:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=243946