Prism Launcher

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Prism Launcher is a Minecraft launcher that allows for easy management of multiple versions of Minecraft with or without mods.

Prerequisites

- A running graphical environment

Installation

Prism Launcher can be installed either through Flatpak (recommended) or via the prismlauncher package.

Flatpak Installation

  1. Follow the Flatpak wiki page and ensure that Flathub repository is enabled.
  2. Install the Prism Launcher flatpak package from Flathub.

    $ flatpak --user install org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher

  3. After installation, Prism Launcher can be started through its .desktop file or from the command line:

    $ flatpak run org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher

apk Installation

  1. Install the prismlauncher package.
  2. Install the openjdk* version required by your Minecraft version.
  3. Install the jemalloc and openal-soft-libs packages

Troubleshooting

Problematic frame: liblwjgl.so

Versions of Minecraft that use LWJGL version 3.3.1 will not start, with the error:

Problematic frame: C [liblwjgl.so+0x4e81d]

Affected versions include everything between snapshot 22w15a(>1.19) and snapshot 23w35a(<1.20.2) There is no known fix at this time.