In order to be able to use these scripts a few external dependencies have to be met. Most of them should already be installed on any Linux distribution.

Order of the list is from what you probably have to install yourself to what probably is installed anyway:

start-stop-daemon

as the name suggests it is used to start the game as a daemon. Will be compiled during installation of scripts later on.

​XMLStarlet

used to manipulate serverconfig.xml

lib32gcc1

(Only 64 bit hosts) 32 bit libGCC, required for SteamCMD

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Everything below should be installed already:

wget

downloads SteamCMD

rsync

create incremental backups of game data

pkill

stops the server log monitoring

netstat

showing the open ports

Bash

the whole thing heavily relies on features of Bash

Init system

for automatic start of 7dtd on server boot (Script designed for SysVInit, it should also work with systemd)

cut, tr, tail, stdbuf

stream manipulation

grep, sed, dd, date, mkdir, touch, nc

tools really every Linux distro should ship anyway ;)