Discord chat programme in BionicPup32
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Mr Henderson
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Discord chat programme in BionicPup32
I installed BionicPup32 (uPup Bionic Beaver) on an old laptop yesterday with the specific purpose of running Discord on it. Using the package manager, I then (allegedly) installed Discord from Ubunti-bionic-universe. Package manager now reports it as 'already installed'. But it doesn't show in the Applications menu, nor the 'Run' box, so I don't see any way to start it. There do not seem to be any dependency problems. Any ideas?
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OscarTalks
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I didn't think there was a Discord client as such available via PPM.
What is the name of the program you installed, was it purple-discord ?
If so, this is a plugin for Pidgin and you will need to also install pidgin_2.12.0 via PPM and then open Menu>Internet>Pidgin Internet Messenger
Choose Discord from the drop-down list of available protocols and enter your login details. I have never tried to use it but suspect it is only a limited form of IM messaging over Discord.
What is the name of the program you installed, was it purple-discord ?
If so, this is a plugin for Pidgin and you will need to also install pidgin_2.12.0 via PPM and then open Menu>Internet>Pidgin Internet Messenger
Choose Discord from the drop-down list of available protocols and enter your login details. I have never tried to use it but suspect it is only a limited form of IM messaging over Discord.
Oscar in England
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Mr Henderson
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- Location: Teddington, UK
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Mr Henderson
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- Location: Teddington, UK
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Mike Walsh
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@ Mr Henderson:-
Discord, I'm sorry to say, has gone the same way most things are going nowadays.....64-bit ONLY. As such, this unfortunately means that anybody wanting to use the Discord desktop client on an older, non-64-bit machine is s**t out of luck!
The .deb download from Discord's website works OOTB in both Xenialpup64 and Bionicpup64. It's handy for me, 'cos as a moderator over at BleepingComputer, I have to able to access BC's Discord server, too. There is the web-client, but I've never been able to access it via this without a shed-load of messing about; there seems to be summat fundamentally 'broken' with the sign-in procedure.....at least on Linux.
With the desktop client, I can leave it open on a second workspace while I'm "on duty" at the BC website. Works great!
(Due to your enquiry, I've just discovered the Ripcord desktop client for "group-centric services like Slack and Discord", to quote the sales pitch. Again, it's 64-bit only, I'm afraid - an AppImage, this time. I'll try this out later this evening in Xenialpup64 and Bionicpup64, and report back.)
Mike.
Discord, I'm sorry to say, has gone the same way most things are going nowadays.....64-bit ONLY. As such, this unfortunately means that anybody wanting to use the Discord desktop client on an older, non-64-bit machine is s**t out of luck!
The .deb download from Discord's website works OOTB in both Xenialpup64 and Bionicpup64. It's handy for me, 'cos as a moderator over at BleepingComputer, I have to able to access BC's Discord server, too. There is the web-client, but I've never been able to access it via this without a shed-load of messing about; there seems to be summat fundamentally 'broken' with the sign-in procedure.....at least on Linux.
With the desktop client, I can leave it open on a second workspace while I'm "on duty" at the BC website. Works great!
(Due to your enquiry, I've just discovered the Ripcord desktop client for "group-centric services like Slack and Discord", to quote the sales pitch. Again, it's 64-bit only, I'm afraid - an AppImage, this time. I'll try this out later this evening in Xenialpup64 and Bionicpup64, and report back.)
Mike.
