As we know that Alien Swarm was released on Monday and myself and Olly were quite excited on Tuesday morning to get this up and running and everything was going really well until this:
[gssimon@INX-236-135 srcds_l]$ ./start.alienswarm: ./srcds_run: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
So had a Google around the error and found that it was todo with a Linux textfile being corrupted by being opened in notepad so used a Linux command to fix it and its still broken.
So I looked through the HLDS Linux mailing list and found this in it:
Upon further investigation, the Alien Swarm dedicated server has not been released for Linux. We shipped some of the Linux files by accident.
M.
Then:
That doesn’t sound good, “by accident”? Will we be getting Linux files tonight?
Jim
Just to confirm:
Sorry if I wasn’t clear. Alien Swarm is not currently supported on Linux.
M.
So we can chalk another mark on the wall for another botched Steam release!
Stay tuned when we hope to have good news soon….(well this is Valve time we are referring to)