Rust How to make a Rust server on Linux to play on Linux! – Game Guides, Walkthroughs, Strategy Guides, Maps

Introduction

This guide will help you through the making of a Rust Server and configuring the server to be able to play Rust on Linux!
This guide will use Debian 10 Buster as an OS for the server.

Requirements

A PC with Debian 10 Buster installed (Or any variant)
A user with sudo permission but not root !
A little bit of technical knowledge of the command line on linux

Installing SteamCMD & Rust

To install SteamCMD on Debian you will need to add the non-free software repository first if not already done.
To do that you can simply type those two commands

sudo add-apt-repository contrib
sudo add-apt-repository non-free

OR, You can edit the file in /etc/apt/sources/list and add "contrib non-free" behind every uncommented line, this should looks like this:

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free

You will also need to enable the 32-bits architecture:

sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386

Then, you can simply install SteamCMD and its dependencies by running (screen is not necessary but we will use it to run the start script)

sudo apt install lib32gcc1 steamcmd screen

Once installed you can run it:

steamcmd

You will be greated by SteamCMD, you will need to login using anonymous credentials

Once logged in we will select the Install folder of the server (I recommend the home directory of the user or the Desktop/Documents directories) I will use a Rust folder on the Desktop as the install directory:

force_install_dir /home/[user]/Desktop/Rust

The we can install Rust using this command

app_update 258550

And you can now exit steamcmd by running

quit

Running & Configuring the server to Play on Linux

Now that all we need is installed, we can go to the install directory

cd /home/[user]/Desktop/Rust

Now we will create a startup script,

nano start.sh

You have two options:
(don’t forget to edit the install directory and anything that can be changed (Rcon Password, Seed, Port, etc..))

Start-up with auto update

#!/bin/bash
steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir /home/[user]/Desktop/Rust +app_update 258550 +exit

screen -dmS rust ./RustDedicated -batchmode -server.port 28015 -rcon.port 28016 -server.worldsize 4000 -rcon.password "pass" -server.seed 123456 +server.security "0" +server.secure "0" +server.eac 0 +server.encryption "0"

Start-up with no auto update

#!/bin/bash
screen -dmS rust ./RustDedicated -batchmode -server.port 28015 -rcon.port 28016 -server.worldsize 4000 -rcon.password "pass" -server.seed 123456 +server.security "0" +server.secure "0" +server.eac 0 +server.encryption "0"

Save the file and now you’ll have to make it executable with this command

chmod u+x start.sh

Then you can just run the script with:

sh start.sh

To see the console and what’s going on you can type

screen -r rust

Note:
You can detach the screen by pressing CTRL + A + D
You can kill the screen (and the server) by pressing CTRL + C

Other Notes

Now that your server is created and running you can connect to your server using my other guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2082308869