HLDSUpdateTool

The Half-Life Dedicated Server Update Tool or HLDSUpdateTool was a tool to update GoldSrc and Source dedicated servers.

All games have been migrated from the deprecated HLDSUpdateTool to SteamCMD.

Limitations/Bugs

Important:HLDSUpdateTool was deprecated in early 2013 in favor of SteamCMD.

Important:The Content Delivery Network HLDSUpdateTool used was shut down in late 2013, thus HLDSUpdateTool is no longer functional.

Setting up

• Windows: Just run the installer

• Linux:
  1. Open a terminal and browse to a suitable folder
  2. Execute wget http://storefront.steampowered.com/download/hldsupdatetool.bin
  3. Execute chmod +x hldsupdatetool.bin
  4. Execute ./hldsupdatetool.bin

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

  5. The real update tool is ./steam

Downloading and running the server

Run the update tool with -command update -game <game>. Optionally, add -dir <path> to download to a custom location.

Run the update tool with -command list to get a list of game names.

To run the game, see either the Half-Life Dedicated Server or Source Dedicated Server page for more information.

External links

• Video tutorial to setup HLDSUpdateTool on Windows