Hello, first time trying out Forge on Ubuntu 18.04 based linux distro.
I've successfully installed minecraft-launcher for java and I can launch a stock minecraft 1.16.3 game as a client no problem.
I appear to have successfully installed 1.16.3-forge-34.1.0 in that I can see everything I'd expect to see under the /home/(myuseraccount)/.minecraft folder.
When I attempt to launch 1.16.3-forge-34.1.0 from minecraft-launcher, I get the following popup error:
Failed to start download.
Name: 1.16.3-forge-34.1.0.jar
URL: https://launcher.mojang.com/v1/objects/1321521b2caf934f7fc9665aab7e059a7b2bfcdf/client.jar
Error details: Permission denied
Couldn't open file for download
Filename on disk: 1.16.3-forge-34.1.0.jar
Path: /home/(myuseraccount)/.minecraft/versions/1.16.3-forge-34.1.0/1.16.3-forge-34.1.0.jar
Exists: Nonexistent
In the ./.minecraft/versions/1.16.3-forge-34.1.0 folder, I can only see a 1.16.3-forge-34.1.0.json and no other contents.
It appears that the forge installer placed the 1.16.3-forge-34.1.0.jar file in the following folder, along with the client and universal jar files:
./.minecraft//libraries/net/minecraftforge/forge/1.16.3-34.1.0
When I open the 1.16.3-forge-34.1.0.json file, it does include the following section that appears to define the correct path:
"libraries": [
{
"name": "net.minecraftforge:forge:1.16.3-34.1.0",
"downloads": {
"artifact": {
"path": "net/minecraftforge/forge/1.16.3-34.1.0/forge-1.16.3-34.1.0.jar",
"url": "",
"sha1": "0a6df450ccb26ad0fd119d5c6faaa4fb0cd889cf",
"size": 197523
}
}
},
EDIT: I also noticed that the Forge related directories and files were installed beneath .minecraft with the owner as root:root (as I ran the install with sudo), but I ran chown recursively on those Forge directories and change the owner:group to my user account:my group.
There appear to perhaps be two errors here, permission denied either for the launcher.mojang.com error and then the Nonexistent for the jar file.
Can you please help me resolve this issue/these issues?
Thank you