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SteamCMD Workaround for “appid 90” HLDS Games Servers Part II

October 8, 2017 Daniel Gibbs Comments 5 Comments

Update October 2017: It seems this issue has returned after Valve fixed it several years ago. I have updated this repo with new app_manifest files for each server. Hopefully Valve fix the issue again. HLDS (GoldSrc) games use appid 90 to download the game server files from SteamCMD. There is a bug that prevents all the files being downloaded from SteamCMD. Getting all the files can take any number of attempts for SteamCMD to download them all. The fix is…

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SteamCMD Commands and Convars

May 10, 2015 Daniel Gibbs Comments 1 Comment

Description SteamCMD does not have a “list all” command to get all command options within SteamCMD. Instead you have to use find . This script outputs all the commands available and saves it to a file. Usage Simply download the script and run it. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dgibbs64/SteamCMD-Commands-List/master/steamcmdcommands.sh;chmod +x steamcmdcommands.sh;./steamcmdcommands.sh List Results You can get the output without using the script. steamcmdcommands.txt My server now checks daily for updates and posts them to this repo. So this list will always be up-to-date….

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Garrys Mod Linux server GLIBC_2.15 fix

August 24, 2014 Daniel Gibbs Comments 4 Comments

Problem Facepunch Studio have released an update for Garrys Mod server that may cause the following error. Failed to open dedicated_srv.so (/lib/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15′ not found (required by bin/dedicated_srv.so)) or Failed to open dedicated_srv.so (/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15′ not found (required by bin/dedicated_srv.so)) Facepunch have needed to update Garry’s Mod to use GLIBC_2.15. because of this you will have the issue if GLIBC is older than GLIBC_2.15. This effects the following distros: CentOS 6 Debian 7 Ubuntu 12.10 or lower To…

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How to Install and Use SteamCMD

February 2, 2014 Daniel Gibbs Comments 23 Comments

This is a brief tutorial on the basics of installation and usage of SteamCMD. Windows Create a folder for SteamCMD. C:/steamcmd Download the SteamCMD (Windows) Update Tool. http://media.steampowered.com/installer/steamcmd.zip Extract the contents of the zip to the folder. Linux Create a user for SteamCMD and login. Note: For security best practice, do not run SteamCMD a root. adduser steam su – steam Create a directory for SteamCMD. mkdir /home/steam/steamcmd cd /home/steam/steamcmd Download the SteamCMD (Linux) Update Tool. wget http://media.steampowered.com/installer/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz Extract the contents…

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SteamCMD Dedicated Server List

January 29, 2014 Daniel Gibbs Comments 1 Comment

I decided to put together a list of all the Dedicated servers available on Steam. This will hopefully be useful to server administrators. I have also put the results on the Valve Wiki page. Here are my results. They are accurate as of April 2015. This is a list of dedicated servers available on Steam/SteamCMD. Key Server – Server Name ID – Server AppID SteamCMD – If available via SteamCMD Steam Client – If available via the Steam Client Anonymous Login –…

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SteamCMD Workaround for “appid 90” HLDS Games Servers Requiring Multiple Downloads

November 23, 2013 Daniel Gibbs Comments 17 Comments

Update October 2017: The issue is back visit here for updated instructions. UPDATE: It appears that Valve may of resolved this issue as I have tested without using the files and it now works first time. I will however leave the details here for reference. HLDS (GoldSrc) games use appid 90 to download the server files from SteamCMD. There is a bug that requires you to try and download the serverfiles many times before it starts downloading all the assets….

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Get SteamCMD Working with 64-bit Ubuntu (Without ia32-libs)

November 11, 2013 Daniel Gibbs Comments 4 Comments

Ubuntu/Debian ia32-libs has now been deprecated within Ubuntu and Debian. How becuase of this the following error will occur when trying to install ia32-libs. sudo apt-get install ia32-libs Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may…

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