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  1. Minecraft Launcher
  2. MCL-13512

Minecraft Launcher deb uninstallable on Ubuntu 20.04

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    • Minecraft Launcher
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    • Ubuntu 20.04
      Java version largely irrelevant as I can't get Minecraft installed.
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      Ubuntu Focal Fossa is the development version of Ubuntu which will become Ubuntu 20.04 later in April. Today, a change to libpango in Ubuntu means that the currently released Minecraft.deb no longer installs. Looks like a dependency needs fixing in the build of the Minecraft launcher deb.

      $ sudo apt install ./Minecraft.deb
      Reading package lists... Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information... Done
      Note, selecting 'minecraft-launcher' instead of './Minecraft.deb'
      Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
      requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
      distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
      or been moved out of Incoming.
      The following information may help to resolve the situation:

      The following packages have unmet dependencies.
      minecraft-launcher : Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0) but it is not installable
      E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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            popey Alan Pope
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