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03. Setting Up SteamBot on Linux

Joel edited this page Jan 10, 2016 · 1 revision

If you plan on running SteamBot on Linux, you may need to follow this guide first.

For setting up SteamBot in general, please read the Installation Guide.

To run SteamBot on Linux, you will require Mono 2.8.0 or higher.

Checking Your Mono Version

The first step is to check which version of Mono you have installed.
You may do this by typing mono -V into the terminal. Depending on which version you have installed, the output should look similar to this:

Mono JIT compiler version 3.0.3 (tarball Sun Feb 10 18:55:04 UTC 2013)

If your Mono version is 2.8.0 or higher, you do not need to do anything else. Simply run SteamBot by typing mono SteamBot.exe into the terminal.
If the compiler version is lower than 2.8.0 or your terminal tells you that the command mono is not found, you will not be able to use SteamBot and so you will need to update to the latest version of Mono.

Updating Your Mono Installation

Ubuntu/Debian installation

Run the command 'apt-get install mono-devel'.

##RHEL6-based

Save the following to /etc/yum-repos-d/mono.repo:

[mono]
name=opensuse-mono
baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono:/EL6/RHEL6/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Type yum install mono-complete.

Run SteamBot

After you have installed the latest Mono, you will be able to use SteamBot by navigating to the directory where SteamBot was compiled (Bin/Debug or Bin/Release) and typing mono SteamBot.exe.