**Install these before proceeding or your bot will not work!**
- [.net 8](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download) - needed to compile and run the bot
- [git](https://git-scm.com/downloads) - needed to clone the repository (you can also download the zip manually and extract it, but this guide assumes you're using git)
- [Redis] (OPTIONAL)- to cache things needed by some features and persist through restarts
##### Installation Instructions
Open PowerShell (press windows button on your keyboard and type powershell, it should show up; alternatively, right click the start menu and select Windows PowerShell), and navigate to the location where you want to install the bot (for example `cd ~/Desktop/`)
6. Open `creds.yml` with your favorite text editor (Please don't use Notepad or WordPad. You can use Notepad++, VSCode, Atom, Sublime, or something similar)
7. [Enter your bot's token](../Features/creds-guide)
8. Run the bot `dotnet EllieBot.dll`
9. 🎉
##### Update Instructions
Open PowerShell as described above and run the following commands:
1. Stop the bot
- ⚠️ Make sure you don't have your database, credentials or any other EllieBot folder open in some application, this might prevent some of the steps from executing succesfully
In order to use music commands, you need ffmpeg and yt-dlp installed.
- [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, just move the `ffmpeg.exe` file to `EllieBot/output`.
- [youtube-dlp] - Click to download the `yt-dlp.exe` file, then move `yt-dlp.exe` to a path that's in your PATH environment variable. If you don't know what that is, just move the `yt-dlp.exe` file to `EllieBot/system`.