wget http://www.steampowered.com/download/hldsupdatetool.bin

chmod +x hldsupdatetool.bin

./hldsupdatetool.bin
type yes
chmod +x steam

./steam -command update -game "tf" -dir .
./steam -command update -game "tf" -dir .

to run the server:

./srcds_run -console -game tf +ip here -port here +maxplayers 24 +map ctf_2fort

Hey presto:)

Also forgot to add, if you have any problems just post up and I'll be happy to help.

linux tf2 server - 195.170.173.12:27025 RTMGaming.co.uk | TF2 Public Server

Where can I find a sample server.cfg?

Following your instructions...

# pwd
/usr/local/orangebox
# ls
appdir.txt hldsupdatetool.bin orangebox steam test2.sohl2 InstallRecord.blob readme.txt test1.so test3.so

There is no "./srcds_run"

if there is no srcds_run the updater didn't finish. Simply run again till it's there.

Drocona Wrote:if there is no srcds_run the updater didn't finish. Simply run again till it's there.

I'm not sure, I don't really have any indication of that...

update Wrote:# ./steam -command update -game "tf" -dir .
Checking bootstrapper version ...
Updating Installation
Checking/Installing 'Team Fortress 2 Content' version 4


Checking/Installing 'Team Fortress 2 Materials' version 3


Checking/Installing 'Base Source Shared Materials' version 8


Checking/Installing 'Base Source Shared Models' version 4


Checking/Installing 'Base Source Shared Sounds' version 4


Checking/Installing 'Team Fortress 2 Linux Dedicated Server' version 1


HLDS installation up to date

Nothing proceeds past this point.

If you get HLDS installation up to date your server is ready to run

./srcds_run -console -game tf +ip 24.94.149.12 -port 27075 +map ctf_2fort
Auto detecting CPU
Using SSE2 Optimised binary.
Auto-restarting the server on crash
AppFramework : Unable to load module bin/datacache_i486.so!
Unable to load interface VDataCache003 from bin/datacache_i486.so
Fri Sep 21 10:04:52 EDT 2007: Server Quit

Any advice or assistance with this error would be great!

are you running on a VPS?

I'm running on Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS Kernel 2.6.15-28

If by VPS you mean a virtual server, no.

Also I went into the /bin directory and chown'ed all the files to my shell user, and added 777 permissions to all of the files.....still no effect.

add -debug and send the error log.

/srcds_l/orangebox$ ./srcds_run -console -game tf +ip 24.94.149.18 -port 27075 +map ctf_2fort -debug
Auto detecting CPU
Using SSE2 Optimised binary.
Enabling debug mode
Auto-restarting the server on crash
AppFramework : Unable to load module bin/datacache_i486.so!
Unable to load interface VDataCache003 from bin/datacache_i486.so
Fri Sep 21 10:23:30 EDT 2007: Server Quit

Okay it looks like what was required was to run this command:

user@host:/srcds_l$./steam -command update -game tf -verify_all

That did it - sorry for mucking up the forum - hopefully someone will find this information useful. = )

Ah ok,
I didn't know that would fix it. You learn something new everyday

I've re-installed everything at this point and would like to add a few thoughts in case someone runs across this thread at some point.

I did not find the srcds_run script under the install directory as listed here, but rather under a subdirectory "orangebox" (so if you're installing in /orangebox, for example, then I found it in /orangebox/orangebox).

I ran across the same issue posted above and needed to do a -verify_all with steam before it would run.

Thanks!