nadekobot/docs/guides/windows-guide.md

Setting Up NadekoBot on Windows With the Updater

Table of Contents
Prerequisites
Setup
Starting the Bot
Updating Nadeko
Manually Installing the Prerequisites from the Updater

Note: If you want to make changes to Nadeko's source code, please follow the From Source guide instead.

If you have Windows 7 or a 32-bit system, please refer to the From Source guide.

Prerequisites

• Windows 8 or later (64-bit)
• Create a Discord Bot application and invite the bot to your server.

Optional

• Notepad++ (makes it easier to edit your credentials)
• Visual C++ 2010 (x86) and Visual C++ 2017 (x64) (both are required if you want Nadeko to play music - restart Windows after installation)

Setup

• Download and run the NadekoBot Updater.
• Click on the + at the top left to create a new bot.
• Give your bot a name and then click Go to setup at the lower right.
• Click on DOWNLOAD at the lower right
• Click on Install next to Redis.
• If you will use the music module, click on Install next to FFMPEG and Youtube-DL.
• If any dependencies fail to install, you can temporarily disable your Windows Defender/AV until you install them. If you don't want to, then read the last section of this guide.
• When installation is finished, click on CREDS to the left of RUN at the lower right.
• Follow the guide on how to Set up the credentials.json file.

Starting the bot

• Either click on RUN button in the updater or run the bot via its desktop shortcut.

Updating Nadeko

• Make sure Nadeko is closed and not running
  (Run .die in a connected server to ensure it's not running).
• Open NadekoBot Updater
• Click on your bot at the upper left (looks like a spy).
• Click on Check for updates.
• If updates are available, you will be able to click on the Update button.
• Launch the bot
• You've updated and are running again, easy as that!

Manual Prerequisite Installation

You can still install them manually:

• Redis Installer - Download and run the .msi file
• ffmpeg-32bit | ffmpeg-64bit - Download the appropriate version for your system (32 bit if you're running a 32 bit OS, or 64 if you're running a 64bit OS). Unzip it, and move ffmpeg.exe to a path that's in your PATH environment variable. If you don't know what that is, then just move the ffmpeg.exe file to NadekoBot/system
• youtube-dl - Click to download the file. Then put youtube-dl.exe in a path that's in your PATH environment variable. If you don't know what that is, then just move the youtube-dl.exe file to NadekoBot/system