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Using Minecraft on OS X Lion

Wherein I learned about Unix permissions for the first time.

This post is a part of my blog paleontology series. I dug up and restored this post on 2025-08-11. I've updated some links to the wayback machine when needed.

Thoughts:

  1. Man, Minecraft has been around for a while now
  2. This seemed like magic to me at the time.

On some systems minecraft won't run. Instead it just continues to bounce in the dock. This usually is a problem with systems permission and can be corrected by running the following command:

chmod +x /Applications/Minecraft.app/Contents/MacOS/*

You do know how to use a terminal right?

~Matt

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