Ok, so from the last section of this you should have a working Counter-Strike:Source server up and running, just to make this a little bit easier on the admins, now we’re going to install Mani Admin Plugin. The first thing your going to need is Mani Admin Plugin it’s self…

# wget http://www.mani-admin-plugin.com/mani_admin_plugin/v1_2_beta_s/mani_admin_plugin_v1_2_beta_s.zip
# unzip mani_admin_plugin_v1_2_beta_s.zip

Once that’s done, you can move the files from the newly extracted directory to your ./<server>/cstrike directory as follows

# mv -R addons /<yourserver>/cstrike
# mv -R cfg/<yourserver>/cstrike
# mv -R materials/<yourserver>/cstrike
# mv -R sound /<yourserver>/cstrike

The next step is to add “exec mani_server.cfg” into your own server.cfg

# echo “exec mani_server.cfg >> /yourserver/cstrike/cfg/server.cfg”

Finally, we need to get mani running as an addon each time your server starts, the best way to do this is to create a mani_admin_plugin.vdf in /yourserver/cstrike/addons and add the following text to it.

“Plugin”
{
“file” “../cstrike/addons/mani_admin_plugin”
}

Mani should now be installed and running, the final steps is to add yourself to the /yourserver/cstrike/cfg/mani_admin_plugin/clients.txt file, this however I will not cover. All of the information on how to do this, in various different ways is available here.

Just so you know, I am currently working on a script that will allow for the automatic installation of ANY of the linux based Steam game servers just by answering a few questions. I’ll keep you posted on my progress with this.