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

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

eay

@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.

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

7

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

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

What's the theme folder location?

anyone got a working pacman hook?

anyone got a working pacman hook?

Probably not optimal, but this works for me.

[Trigger]
Type = Package
Operation = Install
Operation = Upgrade
Target = discord*

[Action]
Description = Rebuild BetterDiscord after Discord update
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /usr/bin/sudo -u USERNAME betterdiscordctl reinstall
NeedsTargets

ahh yeah i think where i went wrong was putting two dashes between the sudo param and the betterdiscordctl cmd. ty 👍

[Trigger]
Operation=Upgrade
Type=Package
Target=discord

[Action]
Description=Update BetterDiscord
When=PostTransaction
Exec=runuser -u alice -- /usr/local/bin/betterdiscordctl reinstall 

ahh yeah i think where i went wrong was putting two dashes between the sudo param and the betterdiscordctl cmd. ty 👍

Very late update :) and maybe the above works for your needs, but I figured out that I actually need to get Discord to update through its own installer and then only after inject betterdiscord. The following is a hack but it does work. This will terminate with Discord not running but fully updated; if you want a hook that ends with Discord running, good luck.

[Trigger]
Type = Package
Operation = Install
Operation = Upgrade
Target = discord*

[Action]
Description = Rebuild BetterDiscord after Discord update
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /usr/bin/sh -c 'sudo -u USERNAME betterdiscordctl reinstall; sudo -u USERNAME discord --help; sudo -u USERNAME betterdiscordctl install'
NeedsTargets

What "discord --help" does is causes the auto-updater to crash as soon as it finishes updating because it doesn't understand the option :) No guarantee how long it will continue to work, but for the past month it's run very smoothly.

dude nice

up and running thank you !!!

I haven't used betterdiscord in a long time