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+# Sample Discord Bot with self update
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- Python 3.8 or higher
+- Git
+- (optional) systemd or equivalent, restarting the bot might be a bit messy otherwise
+
+## Installation
+
+- Just clone the repository to wherever you like
+- If you run systemd, create a service. For example:
+```
+# discord-bot.service
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Test Discord Bot
+After=multi-user.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+WorkingDirectory=/home/marco/Projects/DiscordBot
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3.10 /home/marco/Projects/DiscordBot/bot.py
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+```
+- If you don't run systemd, you have to edit the update script to something like
+```
+pkill -f 'bot.py'
+git pull origin master
+python3 bot.py
+```
+
+### (optional) Setting up systemd user service
+
+Systemd only allows system wide services out of the box. Those require root access though.
+If you don't wanna run the bot on an account with root access, here's what you can do:
+
+On an account with root access run:
+
+```
+loginctl enable-linger <username>           // This will enable a user specific service manager
+```
+More on that [here](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/loginctl.html#enable-linger%20USER%E2%80%A6).
+
+Now reboot your system and log in to the non-root account.
+
+You have to check two environment variables:
+```
+echo $XDB_RUNTIME_DIR               // should return something like /run/user/1001
+echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS      // should return something like /run/user/1001/bus
+```
+
+Now you can create user services under /home/\<username\>/.config/systemd/user.
+
+To control the service you then can do:
+```
+systemctl --user [start/stop/restart] <service name>
+```
+
+To have the service start on boot do:
+```
+systemctl --user enable <service name>
+```
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