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Discord is a proprietary VoIP instant messaging and digital distribution platform for voice, video, and text communication.

Discord is written in JavaScript (with React), Elixir, Python, Rust and C++.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for net-im/discord All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers

`+seccomp`	Enable seccomp (secure computing mode) to perform system call filtering at runtime to increase security of programs
`appindicator`	Build in support for notifications using the libindicate or libappindicator plugin
`wayland`	Enable dev-libs/wayland backend

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Emerge

Discord has a package in the official Gentoo repository - this is the recommended way to install Discord.

Emerge Discord:

root #emerge --ask net-im/discord

Alternative installation possibilities

For users that may have reason to prefer other methods of installing Discord on Gentoo, these alternative options are available.

Flatpak (using flathub)

Discord is available as a Flatpak app that can be automatically downloaded and installed from Flathub.

See the Flatpak article for detailed information on setting up Flatpak on Gentoo. Pay attention not to skip the step of adding the Flathub repository while installing Flatpak following that article.

Once Flatpak is available, install Discord via Flatpak, from Flathub:

root #flatpak install flathub com.discordapp.Discord

After successful installation, Discord may be launched from the command line:

root #flatpak run com.discordapp.Discord

Snap

First, install Snap, paying attention to the recommendations from that article.

Once Snap is available, install Discord:

root #snap connect discord:system-observe

AppImage

Most AppImages, require sys-fs/fuse to work - see the AppImage article for detailed setup information.

Download the latest Discord AppImage from here: https://github.com/srevinsaju/discord-appimage/releases

Make the downloaded file executable (adjust command for the version that was downloaded):

user $chmod +x Discord-0.0.40-x86_64.AppImage

Run the file (adjust command for the version that was downloaded):

user $./Discord-0.0.40-x86_64.AppImage

Troubleshooting

Discord shows the GTK file picker while using KDE or other QT environment

In order to display the correct file picker, Discord reads from the GTK_USE_PORTAL environment variable. To use the right file picker from KDE/QT, launch Discord with the following command or edit the shortcut:

CODE

GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 discord

Discord doesn't start upon a launcher update

Note
This applies only for the official net-im/discord package. The other package managers should not be affected. If they are, update their repositories.

On GNU/Linux systems, Discord expects the launcher to be always up to date. When a launcher update is available, Discord prompts the user to download the latest .deb package from the official website, this of course works only on Debian-based distributions.

Method one: updating the package via portage

In Gentoo, solve this by syncing the repositories and updating the net-im/discord package.

root #emerge --sync

root #emerge --ask net-im/discord

Method two: downloading the latest .tar.gz file and manually replacing the binaries

There are reasons why the user might not want to use the first method. The most common reason is that the package is not yet updated in the Gentoo repository. The Discord binaries can be manually download and used to replace corresponding files on the system.

Note
The package version might differ.

Download the .tar.gz file: https://discord.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=tar.gz

Extract the .tar.gz archive:

root #tar -xpvf discord-0.0.50.tar.gz

Remove the old binaries:

root #rm -rf /opt/discord

Move in the new binaries:

root #mv -v Discord /opt/discord

Remove the .tar.gz archive:

root #rm -rf discord-0.0.50.tar.gz

Now Discord shouldn't give any errors.

Method three: disabling the update check

To disable the update check during startup put "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true into ~/.config/discord/settings.json.

Discord doesn't show emojis or other glyphs correctly

In order to display some characters correctly media-fonts/noto-emoji can be merged, like this:

root #emerge --ask media-fonts/noto-emoji

Discord icon in Plasma systray is blurry

If using Plasma, dev-libs/libappindicator may be merged, to have a nice icon in the systray instead of a blurry one:

root #emerge --ask dev-libs/libappindicator