Easiest way to install Minecraft in Kubuntu 20.04

[mahesh]

My nephew has been attempting to install Minecraft 1.16.1 onto my desktop PC running Kubuntu 20.04, but each time we attempt to launch the Minecraft game, it displays a message stating "Please wait" but it never actually loads the game.

I created a user account for my nephew, and made his account part of the sudo group, but this did not seem to make a difference. Does anyone know what we are doing wrong?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Operating System: Kubuntu 20.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
Kernel Version: 5.4.0-47-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Pentium® Gold G5400 CPU @ 3.70GHz
Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM
Hard Drives: Two 500 GB Seagate Barracuda