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I have been searching for a guide on how to set up a Left 4 Dead 2 Steam dedicated server on a clean debian install.

But I haven't found one that worked.

So if anyone have successfully set up a server on debian could you please make a simple guide or link to an existing guide.

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  • You may find it easier to look up "Left 4 dead server Linux" Aug 8, 2011 at 23:54

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First of all install steam, or the Half Life Dedicated Server (a.k.a. hldsupdatetool, see This site)

wget http://www.steampowered.com/download/hldsupdatetool.bin

Install it ./hldsupdatetool.bin after chmod +x if necessary. It will put steam in the current directory.

Check the tool is at the last version with ./steam (multiple times if necessary, until it displays the help message).

Then the install a game just do well with

./steam -command update -game "left4dead2" -dir .

(It will install l4d2 in the current directory, creating left4dead2/ subdir.)

Hint: the game names can be changed to another game. See the list with ./steam -command list

Bonus: run your server in screen (within the good directory)

#!/bin/bash
screen -d -m -S l4d2-server ./srcds_run -console -game left4dead2 -log on -hostip 88.xxx.x.x -hostport 27016 -clientport 27006 -nohltv +exec server.cfg +map c5m1_waterfront -autoupdate
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  • No need to say you need to login as root, and chmod +x on the executables (steam, hldsupdatetool.bin) to perform these steps. You might also need to install/update your 32bit gcc libraries, since the installer is 32 bit and it is dynamically linked to 32 bit libraries. aptitude (or apt-get) install lib32gcc1 should solve this problem.
    – DrFish
    Aug 9, 2011 at 10:04
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    @Bora I do not recall using root privileges to install steam, but I did it in a user directory.
    – M'vy
    Aug 9, 2011 at 10:10
  • Also, if you encounter any missing libraries problem, you can pinpoint them by running ldd
    – DrFish
    Aug 9, 2011 at 10:13
  • That's the best way, imho, too. Just make sure the user has enough privileges to read files from the shared library folders.
    – DrFish
    Aug 9, 2011 at 10:14

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