Minecraft Forge Won't Install

[Luna510050 1]

So recently I bought Minecraft and decided to add some mods. so when I went to install Minecraft forge, it would not work. I try to install it but nothing happens. can someone please help me understand either what I'm doing wrong or what is going wrong with the installation.

[DaemonUmbra 358]

Please provide your installer log, it will have the same name as the installer but with .log on the end:

Installer: forge-{version}-installer.jar

Log: forge-{version}-installer.jar.log

 

Note: If you have Windows Explorer set to hide file extensions(as is the default setting), they will look like this:

Installer: forge-{version}-installer

Log: forge-{version}-installer.jar

[Luna510050 1]

10 hours ago, DaemonUmbra said:

Please provide your installer log, it will have the same name as the installer but with .log on the end:

Installer: forge-{version}-installer.jar

Log: forge-{version}-installer.jar.log

 

Note: If you have Windows Explorer set to hide file extensions(as is the default setting), they will look like this:

Installer: forge-{version}-installer

Log: forge-{version}-installer.jar

my apologies but I am not a very tech-savvy person so I have no idea what an installer log is or how to find it

[diesieben07 6679]

It's a text file generated by the installer.

[Tidmo26 0]

My forge won't install either (1.14.3)

[Luna510050 1]

45 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

It's a text file generated by the installer.

so where/how would I find that

[diesieben07 6679]

27 minutes ago, Luna510050 said:

so where/how would I find that

Same place your installer is. As DaemonUmbra described.

[diesieben07 6679]

32 minutes ago, Tidmo26 said:

My forge won't install either (1.14.3)

Please make your own thread.

[Luna510050 1]

12 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

Same place your installer is. As DaemonUmbra described.

so by installer do you mean the website that you install from?

[diesieben07 6679]

You downloaded the installer, right? That comes as a jar file. When you run it, it will produce the log file next to it.

[Luna510050 1]

5 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

You downloaded the installer, right? That comes as a jar file. When you run it, it will produce the log file next to it.

well when you go to Minecraft forge I press the "installer" button for the 1.14.3 version. it saves to my downloads but after that I have tried to open it. it opens with internet explorer and asks me if I want to open it or save it. I have tried doing both but nothing really happens 

[uiytt 4]

9 minutes ago, Luna510050 said:

well when you go to Minecraft forge I press the "installer" button for the 1.14.3 version. it saves to my downloads but after that I have tried to open it. it opens with internet explorer and asks me if I want to open it or save it. I have tried doing both but nothing really happens 

Open your windows terminal and write java -version, can you send what it shows ?

[diesieben07 6679]

23 minutes ago, Luna510050 said:

well when you go to Minecraft forge I press the "installer" button for the 1.14.3 version. it saves to my downloads but after that I have tried to open it. it opens with internet explorer and asks me if I want to open it or save it. I have tried doing both but nothing really happens 

Why did you not mention this in the first place? Your first post says it does "nothing", which is obviously not true...

Make sure you have Java installed, if you do, you can run Jarfix to fix the jar-file association.

 

13 minutes ago, uiytt said:

Open your windows terminal and write java -version, can you send what it shows ?

Not really relevant here.

[uiytt 4]

3 minutes ago, diesieben07 said:

Why did you not mention this in the first place? Your first post says it does "nothing", which is obviously not true...

Make sure you have Java installed, if you do, you can run Jarfix to fix the jar-file association.

 

Not really relevant here.

I said that to know if he has JAVA installed 🤷‍♀️

[cagedsoul 3]

46 minutes ago, uiytt said:

I said that to know if he has JAVA installed 🤷‍♀️

That's what i was about to say lmao 

 

18 hours ago, Luna510050 said:

So recently I bought Minecraft and decided to add some mods. so when I went to install Minecraft forge, it would not work. I try to install it but nothing happens. can someone please help me understand either what I'm doing wrong or what is going wrong with the installation.

hey, go here and install this. Once it's installed, go to your downloads folder and rerun the program, problem solved. 

 

Edit: I made an account for this
 

Edited July 16 by cagedsoul

[Luna510050 1]

1 hour ago, diesieben07 said:

Why did you not mention this in the first place? Your first post says it does "nothing", which is obviously not true...

Make sure you have Java installed, if you do, you can run Jarfix to fix the jar-file association.

 

Not really relevant here.

looking back at my first post I definitely should have been more descriptive. so I downloaded Java and tried to download Jarfix and it said that I didn't have Java installed.....

[uiytt 4]

21 minutes ago, Luna510050 said:

looking back at my first post I definitely should have been more descriptive. so I downloaded Java and tried to download Jarfix and it said that I didn't have Java installed.....

Have you try to download it there : https://www.java.com/fr/download/windows-64bit.jsp

If not try now... (if your windows is 64bit)

[Luna510050 1]

1 hour ago, uiytt said:

Have you try to download it there : https://www.java.com/fr/download/windows-64bit.jsp

If not try now... (if your windows is 64bit)

so I tried redownloading again and the first picture is what I saw and Java shows up in the start menu so I assume it's done

[uiytt 4]

18 minutes ago, Luna510050 said:

so I tried redownloading again and the first picture is what I saw and Java shows up in the start menu so I assume it's done

There is only one good way to know if java is well installed...

Go in your windows command prompt and type java -version

can you send me a screen of what you'll get ?

[Luna510050 1]

28 minutes ago, uiytt said:

There is only one good way to know if java is well installed...

Go in your windows command prompt and type java -version

can you send me a screen of what you'll get ?

so I did not know what windows command prompt was either, so I looked it up and did what they said and typed java-version and I got the first picture, but then I realized I typed it in wrong and retyped it and got the 2nd picture

[uiytt 4]

Ok now, the installer in .jar should have the java logo on it.

When you double click on it, it should open a white window, is it the case here ?

[Luna510050 1]

4 minutes ago, uiytt said:

Ok now, the installer in .jar should have the java logo on it.

When you double click on it, it should open a white window, is it the case here ?

unfortunately it does not. it has the internet explorer logo on it. and when I open it this is what I see (2nd pic)

[diesieben07 6679]

6 hours ago, diesieben07 said:

Make sure you have Java installed, if you do, you can run Jarfix to fix the jar-file association.

 

[Luna510050 1]

2 hours ago, uiytt said:

Ok now, the installer in .jar should have the java logo on it.

When you double click on it, it should open a white window, is it the case here ?

thank you for explaining it to me! I was able to figure the rest out myself