SteamCMD is the official command-line version of the Steam client. Through the command line of SteamCMD you can install, update and run Steam game servers, making it ideal for Linux systems.

This post is a guide on installing and setting up SteamCMD on an Ubuntu server.

Creating new user

Best security practises means not running Steam as root user, so create a new user:

adduser steam

Switch to the new user

su - steam

Create a new directory for SteamCMD:

mkdir /home/steam/steamcmd

Move into the directory:

cd /home/steam/steamcmd

Downloading and installing SteamCMD

Use wget to download the SteamCMD installer tool:

wget http://media.steampowered.com/installer/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

Now extract it:

tar -xvzf steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

Move into the directory

cd /home/steam/steamcmd

Run the installer with:

./steamcmd.sh

If it does not work and says: /home/steam/steamcmd/linux32/steamcmd: No such file or directory you will need to install lib32gcc1:

apt-get install lib32gcc1

Now re-run ./steamcmd.sh

Now you will see SteamCMD go through the download and installation progress.

SteamCMD will be active as per the

Steam>

Logging in

SteamCMD allows for anonymous login to download and run Steam based servers.

login anonymous

Or you can use your Steam account:

login YOURUSERNAME

That’s the installation of SteamCMD done, up next will be a game server download and install.