User blog comment:SamwiseFilmore/Trouble with Ubuntu/MC/@comment-25612015-20150424055401

I assume you have installed a Java 8 Run Time. I also assume that for a first time you will be running a vanilla Forge LoTR server (the starting procedure is quite different for Bukkit/Cauldron servers). I assume that you have downloaded the last version of the mod and put it in a mods subdirectory. First you install Forge:
 * 1) java -jar forge-1.7.10-10.13.2.1236-installer.jar --installServer

then here is a script that will launch your server:

8< file: minecraft

 * 1) Minecraft server launcher
 * 2) Please execute:
 * 3)       su minecraft
 * 4)       ./minecraft

nohup java -Xmx8G -Xms2G -jar forge-1.7.10-10.13.2.1236-universal.jar nogui &

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