Install BetterDiscord on Linux

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Install BetterDiscord on Linux

This Gist contains simple instructions on how to install, update, and uninstall BetterDiscord on Linux.

For more thorough documentation, take a look at betterdiscordctl's README.

Do NOT submit issues here as I don't check the comments. You should submit them here instead.

Install dependencies

Curl

Install using your package manager

Install betterdiscordctl

$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bb010g/betterdiscordctl/master/betterdiscordctl
$ chmod +x betterdiscordctl
$ sudo mv betterdiscordctl /usr/local/bin

You can then keep betterdiscordctl up to date with this command:

$ sudo betterdiscordctl self-upgrade

Install BetterDiscord

Replace [COMMAND] with install to install BD for the first time, reinstall to reinstall BD after a Discord update, or uninstall to uninstall an existing installation.

• For Stable

$ betterdiscordctl [COMMAND]

• For PTB

$ betterdiscordctl --flavor PTB [COMMAND]

• For Canary

$ betterdiscordctl --flavor Canary [COMMAND]

• For Snap

$ betterdiscordctl --d-install snap [COMMAND]

• For Flatpak

$ betterdiscordctl --d-install flatpak [COMMAND]

Credits

BetterDiscord by Jiiks

Bandaged BD by Zerebos (rauenzi)

betterdiscordctl by bb010g

i just installed it to stable on the most recent version of KDE Neon, and the command said it was installed, but closing and restarting discord does not seem to show that it was installed at all. this is on the stable version downloaded right from discord's own website, but this also happened on both the snap and flatpak versions as well.

I am having the exact same problem on Kubuntu - betterdiscordctl reports it is installed but the settings just don't show up in the discord client. Already tried restarting discord and rebooting, hasn't fixed anything.

I am on Kubuntu 20.04 LTS using the latest .deb version of Discord.

Thanks @ljcoogan and @Saniee for pointing those out and here i was thinking there is something wrong with my linux version or something

:c

I seem to be getting an error

Looks like latest Discord update (at least for Linux) makes the application a ... web wrapper? I was given the orange banner advising I should install the desktop version...which I thought I did. :P This would also explain why BD says its installed while the options are nowhere to be found in the Settings. Don't know if that helps.

I'm back again, forgot to mention that yes, I too do get an alert that I can download the desktop version, despite being on the desktop version, why and how would they include that in the desktop app anyways?

Looks like latest Discord update (at least for Linux) makes the application a ... web wrapper? I was given the orange banner advising I should install the desktop version...which I thought I did. :P This would also explain why BD says its installed while the options are nowhere to be found in the Settings. Don't know if that helps.

Same thing for me, running on Arch with flatpak

Please all people here that are experiencing problems, download the Beta version/installer which works here = https://github.com/BetterDiscord/Installer/releases/latest

This resolves all the problems. This gist is now out of date, rather just use the installer.

Can also confirm that it has solved the problem for me. Insanely easy installation and no hassles!
Farewell people, and may this installer work for you too xd

Yes, the new official installer works perfectly.
In the past i use betterdiscordctl(thanks for work bb010g) but is finish.

betterdiscordctl and this gist have now been updated.

The gist says to use betterdiscordctl -i flatpak install.
I tried to run that, and I just got ERROR: Unknown top-level option: -i.

EDIT: betterdiscordctl --d-install flatpak install works. Took me a few tries to figure it out though, imo it's a bit unclear.

i need help when i do betterdiscordctl --flavor Canary install it says ERROR: Unknown top-level option: --flavor
Use betterdiscordctl --help for more information. any fix? btw i installed the appimage
.

@8jd --flavor is not a valid option, use -f
betterdiscordctl -f canary install

is there any plan to make this work with discord_arch_electron

i'm referring to the official aur repo by that name

Please update it to link to the current BetterDiscord repository (https://github.com/BetterDiscord/BetterDiscord)

How do I put a theme on BetterDiscord Linux Version?

@BLVCKLVND Join the BetterDiscord server for help on that regard here

working on Ubuntu with flatpak
command:

betterdiscordctl --d-install flatpak install

using the snap version of discord, i have absolutely no clue where to find the plugins folder, and the button in the plugins menu does nothing

betterdiscordctl, или как быстро сломать discord

Ubuntu says i don't have discord install

Hey, i had this problem too. To solve it download the file from their website, it will download as an .appImage file, it shoud be this: "BetterDiscord-Linux.AppImage" go to your downloads directory and do the following:
$ chmod +x BetterDiscord-Linux.AppImage
$ ./BetterDiscord-Linux.AppImage
And it should run the normal installer with no problems. Now the problem that i have is that it's not finding the discord install to install BD. :/

EDIT: after reading a bit up above, the command betterdiscordctl --d-install flatpak install works for me.

Hey, i had this problem too. To solve it download the file from their website, it will download as an .appImage file, it shoud be this: "BetterDiscord-Linux.AppImage" go to your downloads directory and do the following: $ chmod +x BetterDiscord-Linux.AppImage $ ./BetterDiscord-Linux.AppImage And it should run the normal installer with no problems. Now the problem that i have is that it's not finding the discord install to install BD. :/

EDIT: after reading a bit up above, the command betterdiscordctl --d-install flatpak install works for me.

thats so god damn dumb lmao should revise the tutorial as its kind of useless aside from the install atm

Thanks for this. I'm on Linux Mint and using the Flatpak version of Discord. Went and used betterdiscordctl and had it install for flatpak and it worked first try. You do not need to download the Better Discord AppImage installer as betterdiscordctl takes care of installing it for you. Yay!

This is all part of my (inevitable) transition to Linux Mint.

I'm getting "/bin/bash: error reading input file: Permission denied" when using betterdiscordctl --d-install snap install. Any ideas?

betterdiscordctl --flavor does not work anymore. only betterdiscordctl -f does