Here is a important good news for my ongoing project, I have Bot UI for it directly from Microsoft on my linux. And of course, thank you for this great setup post.
Prerequisites are:
sudo yum install libsecret-devel
npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
sudo yum install openssl
sudo npm install -g yo generator-botbuilder
Download emulator release
chmod 700 BotFramework-Emulator-4.10.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage
Create bot:
mkdir myBot
cd myBot
yo botbuilder
cd ypbot/
npm start
Then my bot started:
Run emulator with command:
./BotFramework-Emulator-4.10.0-linux-x86_64.AppImage &
Open bot with url http://localhost:3978/api/messages
Say hello to your bot