Here's a quick guide how to run SpaceEngineers Dedicated Server on Ubuntu with Wine
- A copy of Space Engineers
- A Windows box
- A Linux box running Ubuntu 14.04 or 14.10 (It'll probably work on other distros, YMMV)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.6
winetricks -q dotnet40
rm -r ~/.wine
WINEARCH=win32 wine wineboot
There are multiple ways for transfering files, easiets would probably be using SCP, WinSCP works well for that. You'll want to transfer the DedicatedServer.zip file found in
[Steam install directory]\steamapps\common\SpaceEngineers\Tools
Unpack the zip somewhere inside
~/.wine/drive_c/users/$(whoami)/
The easiest way to do this is to just generate them locally and copy them over to the server, this can be done by using the dedicated server tool on your windows box, the tool is located in
[Steam intall directory]\steamapps\common\SpaceEngineers\Tools\DedicatedServer\SpaceEngineersDedicated.exe
- Select the Default profile
- Set up the world
- Save the config
- Start to generate the world.
The files will be stored in
C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineersDedicated\Default
Edit the SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg and copy it with the Saves folder to the following directory on your Linux box
~/.wine/drive_c/users/$(whoami)/Application\ Data/SpaceEngineersDedicated
You'll have to change the <LoadWorld> tag so it point to the correct directory.
If the Save folder is located in
~/.wine/drive_c/users/$(whoami)/Application\ Data/SpaceEngineersDedicated/Saves/Created 2015-03-30 2331
the <LoadWorld> tag must look like this, where {username} is the same as $(whoami)
<LoadWorld>C:\Users\{username}\Application Data\SpaceEngineersDedicated\Default\Saves\Created 2015-03-30 2331</LoadWorld>
You still need to use windows paths.
- Go to the directory where you have the dedicated server files
wine SpaceEngineersDedicated.exe -console
- There will be a lot of messages regarding xserver, ignore them
- Errors like
fixme:shell:URL_ParseUrl failed to parse L"System.Core"are okay, ignore them. - Be sure to run 32bit, wine doesn't like the 64bit one.
- There is a small bug where after stopping the server you will no longer see what you're typing into the console.
- This guide is based on the guide I found over at Keen Software House Forums created by AdamAnt
I was able to get this working on the latest version. It is essentially a modified version of this tutorial. Here is what I did. Your mileage may vary...
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt install steamcmd
steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir /path/to/SEServer +app_update 298740 +quit
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install wine
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod a+x winetricks
./winetricks dotnet472
./winetricks vcrun2013
./winetricks vcrun2017
cd /path/to/SEServer
wine DedicatedServer64/SpaceEngineersDedicated.exe
~/.wine/drive_c/users//Application Data/SpaceEngineersDedicated/
C:\Users{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineersDedicated\SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg
C:\Users{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineersDedicated\Saves<World Name>\
~/.wine/drive_c/users//Application Data/SpaceEngineersDedicated/SpaceEngineers-Dedicated.cfg
~/.wine/drive_c/users//Application Data/SpaceEngineersDedicated/Saves//
C:\Users\USERNAME\Application Data\SpaceEngineersDedicated\Saves\WORLDNAME
cd /path/to/SEServer
wine DedicatedServer64/SpaceEngineersDedicated.exe -console