Minecraft – Texture packs have no effect in Minecraft on Ubuntu

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I'm running Minecrat 1.3.1 on Ubuntu 16.04. I can add .zip files to my texturepack and resourcepack folders, and they show up in-game in the texture pack menu. I can select them and turn them on. But they don't actually have any in-game effect- no textures change. Anyone have troubleshooting ideas?

Best Answer

There was a very simple answer; I was trying to apply a texture pack that was made for a newer version of minecraft than I'm running. Texture packs fitting that description (usually called "resource packs", a generalization of the "texture pack" that came after minecraft 1.3.1) appear in the lit of available texture packs in-game, but will not actually be applied.