Left 4 Dead 2 Install
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| − | == Installing | + | == Installing SteamCMD + SRCDS / L4D2 == |
| − | First you will need to download | + | First you will need to download SteamCMD (The new Server tool from Valve) in order to download Steam & then SRCDS (Source Dedicated Server) for L4D2 use |
| − | <pre>wget http:// | + | <pre>wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz</pre> |
| − | After downloading you will need to | + | After downloading you will need to extract the contents of the compressed file |
| − | <pre> | + | <pre>tar xvfz steamcmd_linux.tar.gz</pre> |
| − | + | Then you will need to run SteamCMD for the first time | |
| − | + | <pre>./steamcmd.sh</pre> | |
| − | + | Running this command will check for SteamCMD updates to the updater, when it is done it will allow you to input commands | |
| − | + | At the point where you see "Steam>" This is where you can either login as your steam account or login as anonymous (Benefits for linking your server to a Steam account is that steam will add it to their trusted 3rd party servers list in some of their games, so it will appear on the server browser better) | |
| − | + | Logging in anonymously | |
| − | <pre> | + | <pre>login anonymous</pre> |
| − | + | Logging in as your account (Note it is best to create a separate account for this, or you will have to logout of Steam while you are using these commands) | |
| − | <pre> | + | <pre>login <username></pre> |
| − | + | It should then ask for your password & you may have to enter your Steam Guard Password once it emails you one (if you have Steam Guard enabled on your account) | |
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| − | == Downloading | + | == Downloading L4D2 == |
| − | Once you have done the tasks above you can now install a Steam Game Server, To install | + | Once you have done the tasks above you can now install a Steam Game Server, To install L4D2 to the current folder you command |
| − | <pre>./ | + | <pre>force_install_dir ./l4d2/</pre> |
| − | + | <pre>app_update 222860 validate</pre> | |
| − | + | 222860 is the app id for L4D2 | |
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| + | This will check the current folder & download any / all missing files for a L4D2 Server (you can use this command to redownload files that you may have deleted | ||
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| + | L4D2 Will now download (Should go very fast with our network speeds on our servers) | ||
== Running Left 4 Dead 2 via Screen == | == Running Left 4 Dead 2 via Screen == | ||
