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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

@sayand0122
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Thanks @ljcoogan and @Saniee for pointing those out and here i was thinking there is something wrong with my linux version or something

@c8hunderscore
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:c

@Arcane-Cube
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I seem to be getting an error
Option

@alucardromero
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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.

@HeyaGlitz
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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?

@SpectrixDev
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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

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@Saniee
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Saniee commented Apr 5, 2021 •
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Please all people here that are experiencing problems, download the Beta version/installer which works here = https://github.com/BetterDiscord/Installer/releases/latest

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 This gist is now out of date, rather just use the installer.

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

@ObserverOfTime
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betterdiscordctl and this gist have now been updated.

@eiglow
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eiglow commented May 27, 2021 •
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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.

@8jd
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8jd commented May 28, 2021

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

@RandomExplosion
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RandomExplosion commented Jul 21, 2021 •
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is there any plan to make this work with discord_arch_electron

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

@SmolAlli
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SmolAlli commented Nov 3, 2021

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

@BLVCKLVND
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How do I put a theme on BetterDiscord Linux Version?

@SmolAlli
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SmolAlli commented Dec 9, 2021

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

@kyb3rcipher
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working on Ubuntu with flatpak
command:

betterdiscordctl --d-install flatpak install

@Hri7566
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Hri7566 commented Feb 8, 2022

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

@Vcyberpunk
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betterdiscordctl, или как быстро сломать discord

@tw1nkey
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tw1nkey commented Mar 10, 2022

Ubuntu says i don't have discord install
image

@PedroMTSilva
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PedroMTSilva commented Mar 15, 2022 •
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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.

@saku-bruh
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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

@shinji257
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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.

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

@soraA420
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betterdiscordctl --flavor does not work anymore. only betterdiscordctl -f does

@Danielk14565
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eay

@mtfy
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mtfy commented Jun 10, 2022 •
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@teunissenstefan

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

Try running the command as super user. Simply prefix the command with sudo, for example betterdiscordctl --d-install snap install.

@Floofy09
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how to get plugins?

@kaosine
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kaosine commented Jul 19, 2022

This works better than the default installer for me except it's missing the beta branch of flatpak....

@hiromiya1
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@WalaGithub
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Installation process in terminal is normal but does not work at all after rebooting on my Debian 12 build after update

@Matty-exe
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i installed it on ubuntu 22.04.4, but the section betterdiscord don't apear, why and how can i solve ?

@ItsCDubb
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What's the theme folder location?

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