Terraria

Create a user for running Terraria

# useradd -m -s /bin/bash terraria

Become the terraria user so that any file you download is owned by the correct user.

# su -l terraria

Install the Steam command line interface

$ mkdir ~/steamcmd

$ cd ~/steamcmd

$ wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

$ tar -xf steamcmd_linux.tar.gz

Test Steam.

$ ./steamcmd.sh

$ Ctrl-c

Obtain and run the server binary

$ mkdir ~/server

$ cd ~/steamcmd

File: ~/steamcmd/update_terraria.sh

./steamcmd.sh +login STEAMLOGIN STEAMPASSWORD +force_install_dir ~/server +app_update 105600 +exit