There are many reasons why you would want to set up a Minecraft server on your Linux machine. Maybe you want to play local multiplayer later in the day for your friends to come over, or maybe you like to be in full control of the game. Either way, setting up a Minecraft server on Linux is a piece of cake, and we're going to show you how to do the same.

Here are the prerequisites for setting up a Minecraft server on Linux:

Note: We are running the Minecraft server locally in this guide, and this may affect your machine's performance. Closing the terminal will kill the server, so we recommend that you minimize it as soon as you run it or open another instance if you want to do something else.

Minecraft is made in Java and so is the server file. Therefore, you must first install the latest Java version to actually run the server. Minecraft currently only supports Java 17 or higher. Hence we will install the latest version of the same. To begin with, Java is an extremely popular programming language used to develop applications. Installing Java on Linux using a terminal is easy.