Steam, server, steamcmd

get your Debian to Stretch

Please be careful, if at your time of reading "Stretch" is not any longer the current version.

I am doing this with Debian 9 "Stretch", so if you are using an older version, you "can" try the following to upgrade:

• make your system current:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

• edit /etc/apt/sources.list
  • replace all occurrences of "jessie" or whatever with "stretch"
  • add "non-free" behind main, example:

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free

• do the upgrade to the new version

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
shutdown -r now

install steamcmd

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update
apt-get install lib32gcc1
apt-get install steamcmd

Info: I did not see steamcmd via "apt-cache search" until I added i386 AND did the "apt-get update"

login to the steam server

Now you switch to a normal user, someone who is not root.

steamcmd
Steam> login anonymous

Do NOT use a fresh account for Wurm Unlimited. It will only work for anonymous and perhaps for accounts which possess the game for real.

For other games, where you can't use anonymous: After you give the password and perhaps the Steam Guard code, you should not use logout. If you use logout the caching file which will allow you to login without giving the password will get deleted.

install server, example Wurm Unlimited

Steam> force_install_dir ./wurm/
Steam> app_update 402370

402370 is the application id, get the one for your server here: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Dedicated_Servers_List If your server is not there, you'll have to google or just ask in the forum of the game.

You could do the whole thing in one line directly from the command line, but you should first try the slow approach:

steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir ./wurm/ +app_update 402370 +quit

If your current user was named 'petra' you'd now find the game inside

/home/petra/.steam/steamcmd/wurm

From here it depends on the game how to start it.

starting the server, examle Wurm Unlimited

This is of course for most server different from each other. For Wurm Unlimited I got it running - no idea yet if it is good - with the following:

• create start-wurm.sh
• make is executable for the current user

chmod u+x

• put the following into the file

cd /home/petra/.steam/steamcmd/wurm
./WurmServerLauncher start=Adventure servername=Fun pvp=false maxplayers=3 externalport=3724 ip=192.168.0.77

It was important to give the port and ip, otherwise I always got Java errors:

java.net.BindException: Cannot assign requested address

Of course you have to use your ip, not mine.

If you are using a virtual server, give it enough memory, for Wurm 800 MB could be enough, but I think you should adjust the file

/home/petra/.steam/steamcmd/wurm/LaunchConfig.ini

because the entries

InitialHeap=512m
MaxHeapSize=1024m

have to make sense. If you give only 800 MB to the server and here Java thinks it gets 1GB something is going wrong.

I am currently VERY unsure if the following, which I did because I read I need it, is really needed:

apt-get install libswt-gtk-3-java xvfb
Xvfb :99 &
export DISPLAY=:99

I would have to play around and uninstall and install again to be sure. I mentioned it, you can try it :-)