Setting up a Steam game server using Ubuntu Server 10.10

published by maxj on Sun, 03/20/2011 - 18:32

This process hasn't changed much since the earliest posts I found going back as far as 2006, but I couldn't help but notice that there weren't very many people complaining about the issue I was having getting their binary to install. The issue was an odd one where executing the updater binary caused the error -bash: ./hldsupdatetool.bin: no command found. It turns out that the binary decompressor requires the 32-bit version of the system tools (ia32-libs) and, upon further inspections, the program uncompress is needed (provided by ncompress). Thus, I took action...

  1. Install these missing packages by executing the command: $ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ncompress
  2. You should now be able to follow the rest of the directions here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=292495