CLI based Distro: Installing your server
Installing a Raft Dedicated Server on Linux is a bit more complicated than Windows but if you have some basic knowledge of linux you can probably do it.
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Installing a Raft Dedicated Server on Linux is a bit more complicated than Windows but if you have some basic knowledge of linux you can probably do it.
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RDS is really easy to install as it is a single application named RaftDedicatedServer.exe that you can download on our master website available .
This tutorial has been written for Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS. It should work on most other debian based linux distributions. When it comes to other distro families like Redhat, Arch, ... you will need to adapt the commands.
This guide is for Distros that only have a command line interface. If your distro does provide a user interface you should .
There's two ways to install RDS on linux, you can either use our automated script or follow our step by step tutorial. If you don't really know what you are doing, we recommend you to use our automated script.
1 ) Upload all the Raft game files onto your server.
3) CD into your RDS directory
6 ) Launch the installation with sudo ./installrdsscript.sh
7 ) Now to run your server execute the following command sudo ./launchrds.sh
8 ) Now that your server "should" be working, in order to let it run 24/7 when you close the terminal, you can use tmux with the commands below.
Launching the server :
sudo tmux new-session -d -s RDS 'sudo ./launchrds.sh'
Connect to the tmux session:
sudo tmux attach-session -t RDS
To leave your tmux session without killing it press CTRL+B then D
2) Download RDS from and put it into your server directory.
4) into your RDS directory.
( wget )
5 ) Run the command sudo chmod +rwx ./installrdsscript.sh
Heres a useful cheatsheet if you need help with tmux:
1 ) Make sure your distribution is up to date.
Run the command sudo apt update to update all your packages.
2 ) Installing the required dependencies.
In order to run the RaftDedicatedServer.exe file on linux, you'll need to install some third party softwares on your linux server such as & .
Run sudo apt install -y winetricks xvfb to install wine.
Run sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 to allow us to download 32 bit packages
Run the command sudo apt update to get the 32 bit package registry.
Run sudo apt install -y wine32 to install wine32
Run wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine/wine-mono/5.0.0/wine-mono-5.0.0-x86.msi to download mono for wine.
Run msiexec /i wine-mono-5.0.0-x86.msi to install mono for wine.
3 ) Create a folder for your server.
4 ) Upload all the Raft game files onto your server.
5 ) Download RDS from and put it into your server directory.
6 ) Now to run your server go in your server folder with cd yourserverfolder and use the following command.
sudo /usr/bin/xvfb-run -a -l env WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp.dll=n,b" env WINEDEBUG="-all" wine64 RaftDedicatedServer.exe
7 ) Now that your server "should" be working, in order to let it run 24/7 when you close the terminal, you can use tmux with the commands below.
Heres a useful cheatsheet if you need help with tmux:
