How to build and run your own SuperTuxKart server on Debian GNU Linux. SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play.

• https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code/blob/master/INSTALL.md
• https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code/blob/master/NETWORKING.md
• https://manpages.debian.org/testing/supertuxkart/supertuxkart.6.en.html

I've been running a SuperTuxKart server for 8 players including AI-bots on the smallest available VPS package at Hetzner with just a single 2.2 GHz Core and 2 GB RAM.

Create a user account to run SuperTuxKart with

useradd -m -s /bin/bash supertuxkart
passwd supertuxkart

apt install build-essential cmake libbluetooth-dev libsdl2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libenet-dev libfreetype6-dev libharfbuzz-dev libjpeg-dev libogg-dev libopenal-dev libpng-dev libssl-dev libvorbis-dev libmbedtls-dev pkg-config zlib1g-dev

apt install tmux vim-nox
mkdir -pv /home/supertuxkart/repos/

Clone the SuperTuxKart and SuperTuxKart-Assets repositories.

cd /home/supertuxkart/repos/
git clone https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code.git stk-code
svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/supertuxkart/code/stk-assets stk-assets

cd /home/supertuxkart/repos/stk-code
mkdir cmake_build
cd cmake_build
cmake -DBUILD_RECORDER=off -DSERVER_ONLY=ON ..
make install

A user account at online.supertuxkart.net is required to run the server. You can sign up/create it here. You will receive an e-mail with a link to confirm your e-mail address (yes, you should click on that linke before proceeding).

Either log in to your Debian box with the user for running the server or su to it.

su - supertuxkart

bash code

supertuxkart –server-config=supertuxkart_config.xml –network-console

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