Can’t get dependency for proper installation of Discord for some reason

[Member r_chase]

Hi again.

So very sorry for making yet another topic, but I want to reinstall Discord…but APT can’t seem to find the dependency for it to install. Specifically “libappindicator1” iirc.

Anyway, I still appreciate your guys’ hard work. Thanks.

Sincerely,
Chase.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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How did you try to install it?

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[Member r_chase]

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First I typed “sudo apt install” then dragged and dropped the Discord deb into the terminal from the downloads folder. That’s about it really. I just did it again just now and it keeps giving me an error message. Something along the lines of “can’t find libappindicator1 within the repos” or something.

I also tried sudo apt install libappindicator by itself and it gave me an error of “unable to locate package”. Again, that’s about it really.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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I found this, tried it and it seemed to work

Download the deb and then

sudo dpkg –force-depends -i discord-0.0.16.deb

Note: it is 2 dashes after dpkg

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by anticapitalista.

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[Member PPC]

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You may want to download the appimage version of discord: https://github.com/simoniz0r/Discord-AppImage/releases

Just download it, make it executable and run it… It launchs fine here on antiX 19 (I don have an account to test)

EDIT: anticapita beated me to it- try installing the package as in the previous post. If it fails to work, try the appimage

P.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by PPC.

[Member r_chase]

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I might try the AppImage instead, but thanks.

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Actually the DPKG way worked well, albeit with some missing dependencies, but thanks anyway.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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r_chase wrote:

Actually the DPKG way worked well, albeit with some missing dependencies, but thanks anyway.

Once again proprietary software fails because they cant be arsed to build debs properly.
The dependencies are not required or should be changed.

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