Setting up NadekoBot on Linux

Setting up NadekoBot on Linux Digital Ocean Droplet
If you want SCBot to play music for you 24/7 without having to hosting it on your PC and want to keep it cheap, reliable and convenient as possible, you can try SCBot on Linux Digital Ocean Droplet using the link DigitalOcean (and using this link will be supporting SCBot and will give you $10 credit)

Setting up NadekoBot
Assuming you have followed the link above to setup an account and Droplet with 64bit OS in Digital Ocean and got the IP address and root password (in email) to login, its time to get started.

Go through this whole guide before setting up SCBot

Prerequisites

Starting up

  • Open PuTTY.exe that you downloaded before, and paste or enter your IP address and then click Open. If you entered your Droplets IP address correctly, it should show login as: in a newly opened window.
  • Now for login as:, type root and press enter.
  • It should then, ask for password, type the root password you have received in your email address registered with Digital Ocean, then press Enter.

If you are running your VPS/ droplet for the first time, it will most likely ask you to change your VPS root password, to do that, type the password you received through email it won't show any changes on the screen like ****** when password is being typed, press Enter once done.
Type a new password, press Enter and type the new password again and you're done.
Write down and save the new password somewhere safe.
After you've done that, you are ready to use your VPS.

Getting NadekoBot

Part I - Downloading the installer

Use the following command to get and run linuxAIO.sh
(Remember Do Not rename the file linuxAIO.sh)

cd ~ && wget -N https://github.com/MrAdder/NadekoBot-BashScript/raw/1.4/linuxAIO.sh && bash linuxAIO.sh

You should see these following options after using the above command:

1. Download NadekoBot
2. Run SCBot (Normally)
3. Run SCBot with Auto Restart (Run SCBot normally before using this.)
4. Auto-Install Prerequisites (for Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS)
5. Set up credentials.json (if you have downloaded the bot already)
6. To exit
Part II - Downloading Nadekobot prerequisites

If you are running NadekoBot for the first time on your system and never had any prerequisites installed and have Ubuntu, Debian or CentOS, Press 4 and enter key, then y when you see the following:

Welcome to NadekoBot Auto Prerequisites Installer.
Would you like to continue?

That will install all the prerequisites your system need to run NadekoBot.
(Optional) If you want to install it manually, you can try finding it here.

Once prerequisites finish installing,

Part III - Installing SCBot

Choose 1 to get the most updated build of NadekoBot

and then press enter key.

When installation is complete, you will see the options again.

Next, check out:

Part IV - Setting up credentials

You will need the following for the next step: botimg

Once you have acquired them, press 5 to Set up credentials.json

You will be asked to enter the required informations, just follow the on-screen instructions and enter the required information.
i.e If you are asked Bot's Token, then just copy and paste or type the Bot's Token and press enter key.

(If you want to skip any optional infos, just press enter key without typing/pasting anything.)
Once done,

Part V - Checking if SCBot is working

You should see the options again.
Next, press 2 to Run SCBot (Normally). Check in your discord server if your new bot is working properly.

Part VI - Running SCBot on tmux

If your bot is working properly in your server, type .die to shut down the bot, then press 6 on the console to exit. Next, Run your bot again with tmux.

Check this when you need to restart your NadekoBot anytime later along with tmux session.

Running NadekoBot

Create a new Session:

  • tmux new -s nadeko

The above command will create a new session named nadeko (you can replace “nadeko” with anything you prefer and remember its your session name) so you can run the bot in background without having to keep the PuTTY running.

Next, we need to run linuxAIO.sh in order to get the latest running scripts with patches:

  • cd ~ && wget -N https://github.com/MrAdder/NadekoBot-BashScript/raw/1.4/linuxAIO.sh && bash linuxAIO.sh

From the options,

Choose 2 to Run NadekoBot normally.
NOTE: With option 2 (Running normally), if you use .die command in discord. The bot will shut down and will stay offline until you manually run it again. (best if you want to check the bot.)

Choose 3 to Run NadekoBot with Auto Restart.
NOTE: With option 3 (Running with Auto Restart), bot will auto run if you use .die command making the command .die to function as restart.

It will show you the following options: 

1. Run Auto Restart normally without Updating.
2. Run Auto Restart and update NadekoBot.
3. Exit
  • With option 1. Run Auto Restart normally without Updating. Bot will restart on die command and will not be downloading the latest build available.
  • With option 2. Run Auto Restart and update NadekoBot. Bot will restart and download the latest build of bot available everytime die command is used.

Remember that, while running with Auto Restart, you will need to close the tmux session to stop the bot completely.

Now check your Discord, the bot should be online

Next to move the bot to background and to do that, press CTRL+B, release, D (that will detach the nadeko session using TMUX) and you can finally close PuTTY.

Restarting SCBot

Restarting NadekoBot:

If you have chosen option 2 to Run SCBot with Auto Restart from SCBot's linuxAIO.sh (you got it from this step)
You can simply type .die in the server you have your NadekoBot to make her restart.

Restarting SCBot with the Server:

Open PuTTY and login as you have before, type reboot and press Enter.

Restarting Manually:

  • Kill your previous session, check with tmux ls
  • tmux kill-session -t nadeko (don't forget to replace "nadeko" to what ever you named your bot's session)
  • Run the bot again.

Updating SCBot

  • Connect to the terminal through PuTTY.
  • tmux kill-session -t nadeko (don't forget to replace nadeko in the command with the name of your bot's session)
  • Make sure the bot is not running.
  • tmux new -s nadeko (nadeko is the name of the session)
  • cd ~ && wget -N https://github.com/MrAdder/NadekoBot-BashScript/raw/1.4/linuxAIO.sh && bash linuxAIO.sh
  • Choose 1 to update the bot with latest build available.
  • Next, choose either 2 or 3 to run the bot again with normally or auto restart respectively.
  • Done.

Additional Information

Setting up Music

To set up SCBot for music and Google API Keys, follow Setting up your API keys.

tmux
  • If you want to see the sessions after logging back again, type tmux ls, and that will give you the list of sessions running.
  • If you want to switch to/ see that session, type tmux a -t nadeko (nadeko is the name of the session we created before so, replace “nadeko” with the session name you created.)
  • If you want to kill NadekoBot session, type tmux kill-session -t nadeko
Setting up SFTP
  • Open WinSCP
  • Click on New Site (top-left corner).
  • On the right-hand side, you should see File Protocol above a drop-down selection menu.
  • Select SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) if its not already selected.
  • Now, in Host name: paste or type in your Digital Ocean Droplets IP address and leave Port: 22 (no need to change it).
  • In Username: type root
  • In Password: type the new root password (you changed at the start)
  • Click on Login, it should connect.
  • It should show you the NadekoBot folder which was created by git earlier on the right-hand side window.
  • Open that folder, then open the src folder, followed by another NadekoBot folder and you should see credentials.json there.
Setting up credentials.json
  • Copy the credentials.json to desktop
  • EDIT it as it is guided here: Setting up credentials.json
  • Paste/put it back in the folder once done. (Using WinSCP)
  • If you already have SCBot 1.3.x setup and have credentials.json and NadekoBot.db, you can just copy and paste the credentials.json to NadekoBot/src/NadekoBot and NadekoBot.db to NadekoBot/src/NadekoBot/bin/Release/netcoreapp1.1/data using WinSCP.
    Or follow the Upgrading Guide.