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In this post I will guide you through all the steps on how to install a hybrid Counter-Strike 1.6 server on a Linux powered server (ubuntu server in my case). A hybrid Counter-Strike 1.6 server is a Counter-Strike 1.6 game server that allows Steam clients (legit Steam accounts) and non Steam clients (non Steam game clients) as well as owners of old game clients with the game protocol version 47 to enter your server and play.

 

 

 

Create an user for your game server

It’s pretty simple. All you have to do is to run the following command in your terminal:

 

adduser csserver

 

As you can see I added the user csserver. Remember that new users can only be added by the root account so you have to login to your server with the root account. You shouldn’t complete any of those other user details you are asked of… just hit enter.

 

After that you need to login with the new username your just created. It’s easy. Just enter:

 

su csserver

 

Create folders, download and install the server

 

Next you navigate to your home folder using the cd command:

 

cd

 

and then you create a directory in which to download steamdcmd and and one to install the server in (folder server will be where your server will be installed and the folder steamcmd will hold the installers):

 

mkdir server ; mkdir steamcmd ; cd steamcmd

 

Now it’s time to download the steamcmd Valve tool:

 

wget http://media.steampowered.com/installer/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

 

Untar the archive with:d

 

tar -xvzf steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

 

and run steamcmd.sh:

 

./steamcmd.sh

 

Now you wait until it downloads and installs the updates for SteamCMD and you will be able to see a command line starting with “Steam>”.

 

Once you see this you have to login to the steam server anonymously:

 

login anonymous

 

Once logged in let’s tell the installer where you want the folder to be installed:

 

force_install_dir /home/csserver/server

 

Now it’s time to sit back and relax (or maybe smoke) until the installer (steamcmd) downloads all the server files. You download the server with:

 

app_update 90 validate

 

SteamCMD has a bug related to HLDS games. Make sure you run this command multiple times until you see progress 100.00 and Success! App ’90’ fully installed.

 

Nice. Now the server is downloaded and installed. Let’s get to the part where I had to search for almost 2 hours on google to get my server stable with metamod and dproto. These 2 plugins are necessary in order to run your server in hybrid mode (explained at the beginning of this post).

 

Install Metamod

 

Let’s start with metamod. Metamod is a plugin interface for Half-Life modifications that is located between the Half-Life game engine and a Half-Life mod, providing the dynamic loading and unloading of DLL plugins to add or remove extra functions to or from the game server. Change to folder to /home/csserver/server/cstrike ( where /home/csserver/server holds the installed files with steamdcmd ).

 

Create the folder addons/metamod/dlls:

 

mkdir addons ; cd addons ; mkdir metamod ; cd metamod ; mkdir dlls ; cd dlls

 

I saw that my server crashed every hour or so using the metamod plugin. I searched and I saw that metamod-p plugin is also available and it’s better than metamod. The website for the metamod-p plugin: http://metamod-p.sourceforge.net/

 

Make sure than you are in the /home/csserver/server/cstrike/addons/metamod/dlls/ and download metamod-p-1.21p37-linux_i686.tar.gz or you can get it from me and untar it:

 

wget http://savasplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/metamod-p-1.21p37-linux_i686.tar.gz
tar -zxvf metamod-p-1.21p37-linux_i686.tar.gz


 

Go up one level and create the file plugins.ini:

 

cd ..
touch plugins.ini


 

Go up again to the folder cstrike:

 

cd /home/csserver/server/cstrike

 

and edit liblist.gam ( I prefer pico so the command is as follows )

 

pico liblist.gam

 

Go the the line with gamedll_linux “dlls/cs.so and change it to gamedll_linux “addons/metamod/dlls/metamod.so.

 

Save the file with this key combination: CTRL + X, then Y and ENTER.

 

Install dProto

 

dProto is a plugin for metamod that allows protocol 47 and 48 no-steam clients to join the server. dProto page at: http://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55986

 

To install dProto you have to go back to your addons folder:

 

cd /home/csserver/server/cstrike/addons/

 

and create the folder dproto:

 

mkdir dproto ; cd dproto

 

Download dproto from the page above or from me: dproto_i386 and unzip it:

 

wget http://savasplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/dproto_i386.zip
unzip dproto_i386.zip

 

If you ls you should see that in your /home/csserver/server/cstrike/addons/dproto/ folder your have the file dproto_i386

 

Let’s put in the config for dproto in the cstrike folder:

 


cd /home/csserver/server/cstrike
wget http://savasplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/dproto.zip
unzip dproto.zip


 

These 2 commands will create the dproto.cfg file needed by dproto.

 

And the last thing to do in order to get your server to work is to tell metamod about dproto which is easily done by editing the plugins.ini file in /home/csserver/server/cstrike/addons/metamod.

 

cd /home/csserver/server/cstrike/addons/metamod
pico plugins.ini


 

Paste this in:

 

linux addons/dproto/dproto_i386.so

 

and save the file with CTRL + X, Y and Enter

 

Start the server

 

To start the server you need to launch hlds_run from the /home/csserver/server folder with some parameters:

 

./hlds_run -console -game cstrike -ip 192.1.1.1 -port 27015 +maxplayers 32 +map cs_assault

 

Remember to replace 192.1.1.1 with your own ip and if you’re behind a router open up the 27015 port and redirect it to your server.

 

You can also screen the server with:

 

screen -S csserver ./hlds_run -console -game cstrike -ip 192.1.1.1 -port 27015 +maxplayers 32 +map cs_assault

 

You exit the screen by pressing:

 

CTRL + A and then D

 

You can return to the screen with:

 

screen -r csserver

 

And everything should be working just fine. Run your Counter Strike 1.6 game, open up your console by pressing ` and type:

 

connect 192.1.1.1

 

Replace 192.1.1.1 with your server’s ip of course.