Install Counter-Strike: 1.6 server on Linux

This guide will show you how to install a Counter-Strike: 1.6 server on Linux. This method will work for most of the linux distributions.

1. Create and open the folder where you want to install your server.
   

    mkdir SteamCMD
    cd SteamCMD

2. Download SteamCMD and extract the contents of the zip to the folder.
   

   wget https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz
   tar xvfz steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

3. Before you begin, you must first install the dependencies required to run SteamCMD. If your system uses yum, you can run the following command.
   For 32 Bit
   

   yum install glibc libstdc++

   For 64 Bit
   

   yum install glibc.i686 libstdc++.i686

   Or
   

   sudo apt-get install lib32gcc1

4. Open steamcmd.sh and wait until steamcmd install required files in that folder.
   

   ./steamcmd.sh

5. Once steamcmd is installed you need to login in to steam via steamcmd. You can also login using anonymous id.
   

   login anonymous

   Or
   

   login <username>

6. After you log in, you can setup download/install directory for the server.
   

   force_install_dir ./cs16server/

7. Install or update the server using app_update command. app_update  command requires the application id of the game server you want to install. We are going to install Counter strike 1.6 so we will use 90. You can find other application ids here.
   

   app_update 90 validate

8. Run app_update 90 validate comamnd multiple times until no more updates take place.
9. Here you have installed your Counter-Strike: 1.6 server successfully.
10. You can now exit SteamCMD
    

    exit

11. To start the server open server installed directory and execute the following command.
    

    cd cs16server​
    ./hlds_run -console -game cstrike +port 27015 +de_dust2 +maxplayers 32 -pingboost 1

If we put all together

mkdir SteamCMD
cd SteamCMD
wget https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/installer/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz
tar xvfz steamcmd_linux.tar.gz
sudo apt-get install lib32gcc1
./steamcmd.sh
login anonymous
force_install_dir ./cs16server/
app_update 90 validate
exit
cd cs16server​
./hlds_run -console -game cstrike +port 27015 +de_dust2 +maxplayers 32 -pingboost 1