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Julien Bras

OK it's related to the Minecraft version, as 1.17 is now requiring Java 16 (instead of Java 8 on 1.16.5, that's a pretty big move!)

minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Java_Edi...

I will update the article to be sure to download 1.16.5 because it seems less easy to get Java 16 on Amazon Linux 2.

Thanks !

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Jonathan M. Zook • Edited

Julien, I think I found the way to get a higher level of Java on Amazon Linux 2 using the Corretto library. Here are the commands:

sudo rpm --import yum.corretto.aws/corretto.key

sudo curl -L -o /etc/yum.repos.d/corretto.repo yum.corretto.aws/corretto.repo
sudo yum list available | grep java

sudo yum install -y java-17-amazon-corretto-devel.x86_64

sudo update-alternatives --config java
Select the Corretto Java 17 from the list

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Julien Bras

big thanks for digging that! I will update the article ASAP and test on my minecraft server !

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Julien Bras

done @mudhen459 thanks a lot !

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