Hey! Yesterday I used linux for the first time and I literally know nothing. I purchased a Ubuntu Xenial server, where I only have access to a console, I created a SSH key and connected using PuTTY, installed "screen" and "wine" so I could run my discord bot on the machine. This is where I got stuck as launching wine bot.exe in screen throws out "Wine Mono is not installed".
I don't know what's the issue as nowhere that I looked anybody had this issue with wine, only thing that I could find called wine mono was this link here on github. I don't understand how to install it, or is it even what I need.

I would really appreciate step by step instructions, thanks for help and understanding.

Hi and welcome,

You used Linux for the first time and you purchased a server, which has command line only.

Are you comfortable using a typical Window interface like what Windows offers? Or are you more comfortable working with servers and only typing in the command line?

Discord seems to work fine just using a web browser on my Mint desktop machine. I'm sure if I installed an application for it, that it would work fine on the window manager I have.

My point here is that you're talking about using Wine which gives you Windows program capabilities and I believe a user interface. Therefore why not run a GUI on that server, or re-provision the entire system to be a desktop?

What members can benefit from here is a better description of what you want to do with that system so that we can help you more effectively. There are several ways to accomplish something, but using Wine to get a user interface to then run discord on a console based server, would not be my first choice. Please let us know what you wish to do with that system, long term and then perhaps we can offer some suggestions as to how to proceed.

I purchased the cheapest option (2$/month for a small server) from scaleway with the only intention to run my bot off of, knowing nothing about linux. I didn't realise how big of a mess it's going to be, would have written the bot with dotnet if I had. So now I'm stuck, and if there's a better option, like having an interface, I would love nothing more that that. I'd even be happy if you just linked a tutorial that explains how to do.

Please review the link in my signature about how to use the LinuxQuestions.org site where it describes how to ask effective questions on our site.

We're not here to provide guides which you can search for. I do realize you've searched, but you seem to have searched and tried to do things using a dot net interface type of programming model. Instead search for how to create a bot using something like python and how to run it or host it from a Linux server using only the command line.

I've not done that, never had any interest in it, so I have no guides. Meanwhile some searching along the lines I described in the last paragraph shows some results.

Everyone here, including yourself, is a volunteer. The way the LinuxQuestions site works is that we're happy to help you, but we wish to go alongside and work with you, not do the effort for you, in your place. The best starting points we have are to search for solutions.

To be clear "create and run bot using python on Linux command line" will get you started. You may wish to refine those search terms and check out a number of secondary hits you find within the first set of results.

If you truly have better expertise with dot-net, then get an environment to develop and deploy in that.

I'm sorry, but I'm not willing to rewrite my bot in a different language. That is a huge overkill for simply hosting my bot on a server. I thought I asked my question pretty clearly, which was how to insteall wino mono that I linked for what I assumed was the solution to "Wine Mono is not installed" error I kept getting.

What web solutions found when you searched using the terms "Wine Mono is not installed", were not sufficient to help you resolve this?

Top solution: https://wiki.winehq.org/Mono

Sorry but this is the best assistance I can provide for you at this time.