Extract utility¶

The extract utility is a simple utility for extracting the game from an .apk file.

The utility is not provided as a binary, because it is stand-alone and really straightforward to compile.

Usage¶

mcpelauncher-extract <source .apk> <destination dir>

The client binary can use any directory as the game directory, but generally the preference is to use ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/versions/1.2.3.4 as the directory for a given version, as this allows you to easily multiversion the game. This means, that if you have a file called mcpe.apk in the current working directory and it is of the 1.5.3.0 version of Minecraft and would simply like to extract it, you can do it as follows:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/versions/ && mcpelauncher extract mcpe.apk ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/versions/1.5.3.0

To start a given version of Minecraft you can then run the mcpelauncher-client with the -dg argument, eg. mcpelauncher-client -dg ~/.local/share/mcpelauncher/versions/1.5.3.0

Build instructions¶

Prerequirements¶

Ubuntu - sudo apt-get install cmake libzip-dev
macOS - brew install cmake libzip

Compiling¶

git clone https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-extract.git -b ng
cd mcpelauncher-extract && mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake ..
make -j12