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# Using Minecraft on OS X Lion
- URL: https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/using-minecraft-on-os-x-lion/
- Published: 2011-07-20T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-12T00:29:55.000Z
- Description: Wherein I learned about Unix permissions for the first time.
- Author: Matthew Brunelle
- Tags: Paleontology

This post is a part of my [blog paleontology series](https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/tag/paleontology/). 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.

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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](https://web.archive.org/web/20120221161801/http://barelystable.com/tutorials/terminal/Terminal%5FTutorial/Introduction.html) right?

\~Matt