I need help with a .jar file
 

Ok so i am trying to run a minecraft server on mint 17 and i have the wiki tutorial and when i enter the terminal command to access the minecraft_server.1.8.jar it says unable to access. I have full permissions and i am following the tutorial directly. I have never had this problem on windows and I tried asking on the minecraft forums and no one could help, so i have come here. please answer this if you can ASAP

thanks

what is the command you are using ?

a average java line would be

the command i am using is (without quotes)
"cd minecraft java -Xms1G -Xmx1G -jar minecraft_server.1.8.jar"
and
"java -Xms1G -Xmx1G -jar minecraft_server.1.8.jar"

are you 100% sure that you are indeed in the correct folder

that will not work
you WILL get an error stating that there is no folder called "minecraft java"

Gaunce, you are mixing two commands together and mangling one of them.

You need to do two things, independently of one another.

First, cd into the location containing the .jar file.
Secondly, run the jar file.

So, as John VV said:

and then hit RETURN. This should take you in to the folder (whatever it may be). If you do not know enough about the terminal to cd to this directory, try typing "cd" (without the quotes) and then dragging-and-dropping the directory (containing the jar file you want to execute) into the terminal. Its full path will be pasted as text into the terminal, and then you can press RETURN.

If you do:

You should see, in the terminal, that you are now located in the directory containing your jar file.

Assuming you have gotten this far, you can execute the jar file. It looks to me like you got from the wiki link that the command should be 'java -Xmx1G -jar minecraft_server.1.8.jar', so I'll assume you are correct about all those fancy flags (although they're greek to me). So you would execute the jar file like this:

And that should do it.