think i may be getting closer to the issue, maybe screwy install of mono… looking at why path gave file not found, i spotted a file in bin ‘mono’ that is 0kb. i unzipped the addon that i installed, then the xz file and noted the mono in bin as around 3mb. dropped that to bin on N2 and tried running the commands again. now i get something! a bunch of errors but i can see it is trying to run mono but failing with dll not found issue. in process of copying the full extract of the xz file from PC to N2, but it says 1 day left!! doh Microsoft time, don’t believe that for one minute!