N00b setup of steam for half-life

[BubbaGum]

Howdy,

I've gotten half way thru the install, but in the readme I came across this:

-Half-Life-

Create a "Steam" account from http://www.steampowered.com/ and download the gameserver. You willprobably need to update the steam client. After that you can download the various mods. currently support Half-Life mods are: Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress Classic, Death Match Classic. Once you have these mods downloaded, you can package the directory:

cd /path/to/gamserver
tar cjvf hlds.server.tar.bz2 hlds_l
mv hlds.server.tar.bz2 /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/


There is no linux version of steam, so I'm puzzled what i'm downloading. Do I download something on winderz and then xfer to the server? Do I download the individual games as well and xfer to the server?

Anything else I'm not catching/asking about that might snag me on this setup? (if I'm not familar with this type of setup)

Sorry to be so lost, but totally new at game server setup. I'm doing this for our company for employee use.

Thanks

[BubbaGum]

I got a bit further, but now really confuzzeled...

1) I downloaded some game files from mirrrors, but they show up as being out of date in WHM

2) logging into the user cpanel, I cannot start the game server (half-life), Also, other settings are saved as blanks (number of players, etc). But I set this in WHM, so not sure what it's doing.

[BubbaGum]

getting some weirdness in the save of settings for advanced configurator in the user panel:

HalfLife Server Control
ERROR: Can not open config file /home/username/.gameservers/hlds_l////server.cfg : Permission denied
Config file saved.

it's adding a few forward slashes for no apparent reason, so nothing is being updated for steam or other settings. Where can i change this?