Hey all you Counter Strike 1.6 fR3/\ks out there…
Good news! You don’t have to depend on Windows anymore for playing your favourite game, “Counter Strike 1.6″. :p It’s right here in our very own, Linux!

Yes, CS 1.6 is duly available for Linux also.
I’ll now guide you through the procedure to install official “Steam” in your Linux Box.

Firstly, we’ll start by creating a directory ( in your home folder, preferably ) called hlds.

mkdir hlds

Now we’ll go to the directory created (cd hlds) and there we’ll download a file named, hldsupdatetool.bin

wget http://www.cstrike-planet.com/dls/hldsupdatetool.bin

after downloading, we’ll change it’s permission to executable by,

chmod +x hldsupdatetool.bin

and then run hldsupdatetool.bin

./hldsupdatetool.bin

After agreeing the conditions by hitting yes, if all goes well, you’ll have a file named “steam” in that folder. If you get any error message ( Like me :p ) like
'uncompress: command not found'
take heart… don’t get frustrated mann…
just uncompress it by

ln -s /bin/gunzip /bin/uncompress

after you finally got the file named steam, you again change the permission of it to executable by,

chmod +x steam

and run it by

./steam -command update -game cstrike -dir .

Yay, you’re done….

now just sit back for a considerable amount of time leaving it all for the installer to download and install CS 1.6 for you.
A word of caution though : This process will take about 11/2 – 2 Hrs. So, just make sure, you have enough time for it…

Best of luck at the Arena…

And, do tell me how this helped you if we meet somewhere… be it Dust 2, Train, Cbble, inferno or Nuke…
I’ll be as /i/ VooDoo Child ~ozh in there…

Best of luck, Happy Hunting dudes…