1.1 Information

prompt[home]#>  That's from now on being referred to as the shell prompt and might look a bit different than your shell prompt.
The prompt in this howto always displays the directory you are in (or supposed to be in).
You can easily check in which folder you are in with the pwd command and list the directory content with the ls command and change to directories with the cd command.
Continue with the next command/step in this howto only if the previous one is completed! Some commands might take a long time to complete.

In the howto there are two ways described on how to get a file(dowload) use either the wget or cp method on each file. (getting the file one time is enuf. :-)

Security and directory permissions.
For security reasons it is best not to install the server as ROOT but as a regular user.
Steam wants to install into the /usr/ directory but that directory and all it's content is owned by root.
Give a regular user permission to access files and directories in the /usr/steam/ directory.
A "regular user" to be referred to as john in the rest of this howto.

1.2 Requirements

• A working Linux server capable of running Half-Life.
• A working Internet connection.
• A Steam account or Email account.
• Patience.

1.3 File URL's

During the howto you'll need to download files to install. It would be handy if you got the file URL's upfront.
The listed URL's might be broken so search on Google for alternatives.
It might also be that the archive/installer versions are updated. URL's and versions are most up to date at time of last howto update.
If you can not find direct downloads try checking The Steam Offical Website or on FileShack
Then you'll have to download the files with a browser and save them to your user home directory on the Linux server (i.e. /home/john/files.tgz) (Providing you have a working internet browser on your Linux server.)
Other option is to get the files with a windows pc and ftp them to your user home directory.
The howto gives two options on getting files wget and cp method.
The URL's used in the howto are examples replace them with the ones listed or the ones you have found.

• wget method download the file directly from the shell prompt command.
• cp method copies a file local after you have download it upfront by other means and have stored it in your user home directory: /home/john/

note* use only one method at each file.

Steam home page: http://www.steampowered.com

The Steam installer:: linux_hlserver_3032004.tgz
http://www.steampowered.com/HLserver/mar3/linux_hlserver_3032004.tgz       

MetaMod home page: http://metamod.org

MetaMod dll:: metamod-1.17.2-linux.tar.gz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/metamod/metamod-1.17.2-linux.tar.gz?download
http://www.ozforcesfiles.com/index.php?action=download&id=1908

AMX Mod X home page: http://www.amxmodx.org/

Amxmodx archive:: amxmodx-0.16-steam.tar.gz
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/amxmodx/amxmodx-0.16-steam.tar.gz

ShrikeBot home page: http://www.shrikebot.com

ShrikeBot archive:: shrikebot_231.tgz
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jasp/shrikebot/shrikebot_231.tgz
http://cervezas.no-ip.org/shrikebot/shrikebot_231.tgz