Helping a newbie (not NooB, newbie) install minecraft server...
Two things, a What-the-heck? and then a minor WTF
K, a wiki that tells you what to do... install java from this URL, this edition, test it, etc.. details for Windows, OSX, Linux, others, nice... double click on minecraft_server.exe ...
WTH! where's that? All that detailed instruction, NOTHING on go HERE to download the software your trying to intsall. Sigh, "Yes, this is the world of computers." Not a big deal, google it..., download it...OK.. ready!
Double-click, and... what happened!?... did something flash on the screen?? Maybe. Try again. Same thing. Huh?
Letsee, cmd, dir, ... besides the .exe, there's a folder named logs, look in there, some archived files (ok, yes, we did the try again thing a FEW times, sue me) and a "latest.txt" file - open that. Ooooh, some java runtime errors. The last one has a message telling me to look at the eula.
Oh, look, here, EULA.txt (which magically appeared from running the .exe):
// to accept the our EULA, (see here), change false to true in the line below
EULA := false
I've heard that installers are hard to write, but really?
Ooh, look it runs!! It runs!! We've got a big, empty box, with three empty boxes in it!