Installation of SteamCMD

Introduction

This tutorials is about installing and configuring SteamCMD on Linux systems. The installation and setup of game servers is covered in subsequent tutorials.

Game server tutorials:

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Requirements

An x86 / x64 compatible system
Linux operating system

Step 1 – Preparations

Create a new user to run SteamCMD and the game servers:

useradd -m -s /bin/false steamcmd

Step 2 – Installation

Install dependencies for SteamCMD.

Ubuntu/Debian 64-Bit:

apt-get install lib32gcc1 libstdc++6:i386

RedHat/CentOS:

yum install glibc libstdc++

RedHat/CentOS 64-Bit:

yum install glibc.i686 libstdc++.i686

Create the installation directory:

mkdir /opt/steamcmd && chown steamcmd:steamcmd /opt/steamcmd

Switch to the created steamcmd user:

su --shell /bin/bash steamcmd

Download the latest version of SteamCMD:

cd /opt/steamcmd && curl -sqL "https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz" | tar zxvf -

Step 3 – System links (Optional)

Create a link to allow a system-wide call to SteamCMD:

ln -s /opt/steamcmd/steamcmd.sh /usr/local/bin/steamcmd
ln -s /opt/steamcmd/linux32/ /usr/local/bin/linux32
ln -s /opt/steamcmd/linux64/ /usr/local/bin/linux64

SteamCMD can then be started from anywhere using the steamcmd command.

Conclusion

This tutorial is a starting point to installing game servers via SteamCMD.

Reprint: https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-steamcmd