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
• Palworld

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 lib32gcc-s1

• 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:

Run these commands with the root user or a user with sudo permissions.

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

You can then start SteamCMD from anywhere using the steamcmd command.

Conclusion

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

License: MIT