How to install Discord on Ubuntu (Linux)

Lets start with getting information about Discord application .

Discord is an application for text, image, video and audio communication, which was developed for video gaming communities. Discord runs on various Linux Distributions of your choice and, in particular, on Ubuntu 20.04 . The objective of this guide is to install Discord the gamer’s chat platform on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux .

In this tutorial you will learn :

1 . How to install Discord

2. How to launch Discord

Install Discord on Ubuntu step by step instructions :

Install Discord using snap :

The easiest way to install Discord is snap .

The snap command lets you install, configure, refresh and remove snaps.
Snaps are packages that work across many different Linux distributions,
enabling secure delivery and operation of the latest apps and utilities. The more information about snap will be get by hitting command man snap on Ubuntu terminal .

$ sudo snap install discord
discord 0.0.9 from Snapcrafters installed

This will install discord directly .

Install Discord using official packages :

step 1 > Install all prerequisites needed to perform the Discord installation:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install gdebi-core wget

step 2 > Download the official Discord debian package :

$ wget -O ~/discord.deb "https://discordapp.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=deb"

step 3 > Install previously download package by gdebi command :

$ sudo gdebi ~/discord.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2-common libappindicator1 libc++1 libc++1-9 libc++abi1-9 libdbusmenu-gtk4 libgail-common libgail18 libgconf-2-4 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common 

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step 4 : Start Discord either by searching for the application name in the Activities menu or be executing the following command:

$ discord

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