fix(steamcmd): add libtinfo.so.5 symlink fix for readline warning#4899
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On distros shipping libtinfo.so.6 but not libtinfo.so.5 (Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+), SteamCMD prints: WARNING: Failed to load 32-bit libtinfo.so.5 or libncurses.so.5. Please install (lib32tinfo5 / ncurses-libs.i686 / equivalent) to enable readline. lib32tinfo5 does not exist on Ubuntu 24.04. Creating a user-space symlink inside the steamcmd directory resolves the warning without requiring root or a missing package.
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Pull request overview
Adds a SteamCMD runtime fix for modern distros missing libtinfo.so.5, and introduces TF2 Classified (tf2c) server support which relies on downloading a base appid into a separate support directory.
Changes:
- Add a user-space
libtinfo.so.5 -> libtinfo.so.6symlink workaround infix_steamcmd.sh. - Add
baseappiddownload support in the SteamCMD download flow (download base app intosupportdirbeforeappidintoserverfiles). - Register new
tf2cserver (server list entry + default config + config install handling).
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| lgsm/modules/install_config.sh | Adds config discovery/installation handling for tf2c. |
| lgsm/modules/fix_steamcmd.sh | Creates a libtinfo.so.5 symlink to suppress SteamCMD readline warnings on newer distros. |
| lgsm/modules/core_dl.sh | Implements baseappid download (to supportdir) before downloading appid. |
| lgsm/data/serverlist.csv | Registers tf2c in the supported server list. |
| lgsm/config-default/config-lgsm/tf2cserver/_default.cfg | Adds default LinuxGSM config for the new tf2cserver. |
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- Iterate over all candidate steamcmd dirs (HOME/.steam/steamcmd, steamcmddir, HOME/.local/share/Steam/steamcmd) matching the pattern used for steamclient.so fixes elsewhere in the module - Replace '! -f && ! -L' guard with '! -e' so broken/dangling symlinks are also repaired rather than silently skipped - Add mkdir -p before ln in case the directory does not exist yet - Capture exitcode=$? after ln so fn_fix_msg_end reports failures
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Description
On distros that ship
libtinfo.so.6but notlibtinfo.so.5(Ubuntu 22.04+, Debian 12+), SteamCMD prints the following warning at every run:lib32tinfo5does not exist on Ubuntu 22.04+ / Debian 12+ — the package was removed when ncurses transitioned tolibtinfo6. There is no apt package to install to resolve the warning on modern distros.In
fix_steamcmd.sh, a user-space symlinklibtinfo.so.5 -> libtinfo.so.6is created inside all known SteamCMD directories when the.so.5file is absent or a broken symlink. This requires no root access and resolves the warning for all SteamCMD-based game servers.Fixes #212
Fixes #3137
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PR will not be merged until all steps are complete.
developbranch as its base.Documentation
No documentation update required — this is an internal runtime fix with no user-facing configuration changes.
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