How to run Discord?

[je55eah]

Has anyone successfully installed this? I tried to run the file in the tar they offer, but Linux doesn't know what to do with it.

[JakeSFR]

I don't use Discord, but just checked and it starts for me; I have to use ./Discord --no-sandbox, though, since it doesn't like root.

Greetings!

[je55eah]

Interesting. I was opening the file manager through Firefox and clicking it so that I would run as spot, but that didn't work.

When I tried to run it form the terminal as you indicate I got the following:

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see image

discord crash.png (352.25 KiB) Viewed 1123 times

this is inside of an lxc sandbox. I'm not trying to install anything on the host system because everytime I change anything something else breaks.

(I wish there was an easy way to copy and paste from the sandbox to the host system. I Started using the sandbox because virtualbox randomly crashes every time I use it, but the sandbox is not only less isolated, but it is also less capable.)

[JakeSFR]

I tried it as root in a regural sandbox.sh, I'm not familiar with the lxc one.
Just tried it directly also as spot and it started as well.

Given the info from your screenshot ("FATAL:.../dev/shm...") , it might an issue with lxc sandbox itself - /dev/shm doesn't seem to be available there:

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sandbox-lxc# ls /dev/shm
ls: cannot access '/dev/shm': No such file or directory
sandbox-lxc#

Can't help you with this one unfortunately, I hope James or somebody who's actually using it will chime in eventually...

Greetings!

[jamesbond]

Inside sandbox-lxc

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# fixes missing /dev/shm
mkdir -p /dev/shm
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /dev/shm

# fixes discord cannot be started as spot
chmod 1777 /tmp

# run this from where discord tarball is extended.
# tested to work with discord 0.22
run-as-spot ./Discord

I'm not a discord user so the following screenshot is as far as I can go.

[je55eah]

Thank you. If anyone else is doing this, the shell commands provided do not go in the sandbox-lxc.sh file. They should be run within the sandbox manually.

After creating /dev/shm I ran

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chmod 1777 /dev/shm

because that was advised by the Discord app.