SteamCMD

Template:Otherlang2 The Steam Console Client or SteamCMD is a new tool to install and update dedicated servers using a command line interface. It only works with games that have switched over to the Steam Pipe content system. Eventually all Steam games will switch from HLDSUpdateTool to this.

Downloading and Running SteamCMD

1. Download the SteamCMD Update Tool

• Windows .zip file
• Linux: type wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

If you are running a 64-bit Linux distro, you will probably have to install 32-bit libs. See here how to do this.

2. Extract the contents to a directory

Note:Do not extract the contents of the updater tool to the regular Steam Client folder or to the HLDSUpdateTool folder.

• Linux: type tar xvfz steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

3. Launch SteamCMD for the first time

Open a command prompt in that directory and start SteamCmd

• Windows: type steamcmd
• Linux: type ./steamcmd.sh

The program will automatically update and enter you in to a Steam> prompt. Type help for more information.

For Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or Nuclear Dawn, you can login anonymously

login anonymous

For other games, you will have to log in with a Steam Account

Note:You must log out of the regular Steam client in order to properly log in to SteamCMD Update Tool.

login <username>

Enter your password. Then check your e-mail for your Steam Guard access code and enter it (you'll only need to do this once per computer).

You should see a message stating that you have successfully logged in with your account.

Downloading an app

1. Start SteamCMD and set your app install directory. (note: use forward slashes for Linux and backslashes for Windows)

force_install_dir <path>

Bug:On some Linux distributions the path cannot contain any capital letters - see #Known issues  [todo tested in ?]

Example: cs_go directory in the current directory:

force_install_dir ./cs_go/

2. Install or update the app. <app_id> is the Steam Application IDs. To also validate the app add validate to the command.

app_update <app_id>

Example: install and validate CS:GO:

app_update 740 validate

3. Once finished, type quit to properly log off of the Steam servers.

Supported Servers

ID	Server
90	Half-Life Dedicated Server for Half-Life: Deathmatch and Counter-Strike
740	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Dedicated Server
215350	Killing Floor Dedicated Server

Automating SteamCMD

There are two ways to automate SteamCMD. (replace steamcmd with ./steamcmd.sh on Linux)

1. Add commands to the command line. Examples:

steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir ../csgo_ds +app_update 740 validate

steamcmd +login <username> +force_install_dir c:\KFServer\ +app_update 215350 validate

2. Create a script.

a. Put your SteamCMD commands in a text file. Example:

// update_csgo_ds.txt
//
login <username>
force_install_dir ../csgo_ds
app_update 740 validate
exit

b. Run SteamCMD with the +runscript option. Example:

steamcmd +runscript csgo_ds.txt

Known issues

I was able to download or update the server package with SteamCMD, but the server fails to start

Common causes:

• Linux: Some games on some distributions have issues with uppercase letters in directory/filenames.

32-bit libraries on 64-bit Linux systems

Since steamcmd is a 32-bit program, a few 32-bit libraries are required, even if you already have their 64-bit versions installed.

The related error message looks like this:
steamcmd: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The remedies are distribution-specific:

Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint)

apt-get install ia32-libs

if apt-get install ia32-libs displays:

The following packages have unmet dependencies: ia32-libs : Depends: ia32-libs-multiarch but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Use:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

and

sudo apt-get update

before running apt-get install ia32-libs

Red Hat and derivatives (RHEL, Fedora, CentOS)

yum install glibc.i686 libstdc++.i686

Arch Linux

Don't forget to first enable the multilib repository.

pacman -S lib32-gcc-libs

Download Failed

On windows computers, the initial download may fail if proxy settings are not set to automatically detect settings.

Login Failure: No Connection

On linux servers, you may experience a "Login Failure: No Connection". This is related to missing iptables rules. You will want something along these lines:

iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 27000:27030 --dport 1025:65355 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --sport 4380 --dport 1025:65355 -j ACCEPT

The port list is found here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=8571-GLVN-8711&l=english