

That and the ID thing mentioned in step 5. I believe this works because of some lines I saw in my Minecraft logs: : Finished downloading /home/noel/.minecraft/libraries/tv/twitch/twitch/5.16/twitch-5.16.jar for job 'Version & Libraries': Local file matches local checksum, using that I think that Minecraft just uses the local files if they match their local checksum. Minecraft should not check the libraries, as it does not recognize the ID of the version as one of its remote versions.

Rename the something inside the original quotation marks with what you renamed the folder to. Rename the jar file to what you renamed the folder to, exactly, but with its original extension. You should see a jar file and a JSON file.

Alternatively, grab it with wget and install it with dpkg in the terminal: You can launch the game from your usual applications menu. Simply download the DEB file and double click it to prompt the installer software to run. It should come out as something like "1.7.10 (copy)". Installing Minecraft on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and similar distributions is straightforward. Copy the folder of the version you want to skip libraries on to the current directory.If you're using a Unix-based operating system, it's under ~/.minecraft/. If you're using iOS, I think it's under Library/Application Data/minecraft. You can get to it by opening Run and then typing in %APPDATA%\roaming\.minecraft and then pressing enter. If you're using Windows, it's under %APPDATA%\roaming\.minecraft. Here's how to make a version a "modded" version without it actually being modded. I've noticed that on modded minecraft versions, the launcher just basically shrugs and skips the library checks. NOTE: This is a workaround, not an official way to do it.
