Supported Operating Systems

Windows

Windows 7 and onward is supported with Windows 10 and up being recommended.

Linux

Any distro that is based on Ubuntu 20.04 x86-64 or later. It has been tested on:

• Debian 12

• Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04

• RHEL 9, RockyLinux 9, RHEL 10 Beta

AppImage (recommended)

1. Install fuse for AppImage and CA certificates.

   1. sudo apt install fuse ca-certificates -y

   2. sudo dnf install fuse ca-certificates -y

2. Download the AppImage from https://phbot.org/crypto/download/

3. chmod +x phBot_Crypto-*.AppImage

4. Run ./phBot_Crypto-*.AppImage

5. To update the bot, follow the steps outlined here.

All configuration files for Linux are located at ~/.phBot-crypto.

Wine

Ubuntu 22.04 x86-64 is recommended. If you want to run it completely headless you should learn about screen.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo mkdir -pm755 /etc/apt/keyrings
sudo wget -O /etc/apt/keyrings/winehq-archive.key https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
sudo wget -NP /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/dists/jammy/winehq-jammy.sources
sudo apt update && sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

Running

wine cmd
phBot-crypto.exe

VPS

If you would like to run phBot Crypto on a VPS there are several options to choose from.

Paid

• DigitalOcean
• Linode
• Vultr

Free

• AWS
• Oracle (recommended)
• IBM

The bot does need to write some data to disk so AWS free tier is not recommended as it is too slow.