How to install Starbound on a Linux CentOS Server

This will guide you through the steps to set up Starbound on a Linux CentOS Server.

1. Ensure you have screen installed. Doing this will vary by distro. For CentOS and other Redhat you would use the below command

yum install screen

2. Make a user account for starbound (Must use sudo or root to accomplish this).

adduser starbound
passwd starbound

3. login as user
4. Create directory for SteamCMD and switch to it

mkdir SteamCMD
cd SteamCMD

5. Retrieve and decompress SteamCMD

wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz
tar -xvzf steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

6. Launch SteamCMD and allow it to update

./steamcmd.sh

When you see a prompt that looks like

Steam>

Press CTRL and C on your keyboard at the same time to stop the program.

7. Create a script to install and update Starbound and the folder to hold the server files

mkdir ../server
touch update_starbound.sh
echo "./steamcmd.sh +login USERHERE PASSWORDHERE +force_install_dir /home/starbound/server +app_update 211820 +exit" > update_starbound.sh
chmod +x update_starbound.sh

8. Run the script to download latest version of Starbound

./update_starbound.sh

9. Go to server directory

cd ~/server/linux32

10. Start a screen session so the server can run without the terminal being open

screen -S starbound

The above starts the screen session and names it starbound

11. Start the server

./launch_starbound_server.sh

12. After this the server should now bootup successfully, you will see some warning messages (not errors). To disconnect from the screen session you need to press

Ctrl+a+d

All at once. At a regular terminal session you can type

screen -r

To reconnect to the server terminal

After this just make sure you're firewall is open or the ports are forwarded then you should be all set.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are on CentOS and receive errors about libs then try the following command.

cp /home/starbound/SteamCMD/linux32/libstdc++.so.6 /home/starbound/server/linux32/