Having difficulty installing Discord for Linux

[AlTech]

I'm dual booting for experimentation purposes but i can't seem to get Discord to install on Linux.

 

I'm using Elementary OS 0.4 which is based off of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I tried to execute the deb file  to no avail.

 

What can i do to fix this problem?

 

Thanks much.

[Oliy]

So when you tried to execute nothing happened? Can you elaborate  ?

[Granular]

You don't execute deb files. You open them with a package manager like Gdebi.

[AlTech]

2 minutes ago, Oliy said:

So when you tried to execute nothing happened? Can you elaborate  ?

I gave the deb file all the permissions needed to be able to execute and when i double clicked it, nothing happened.

 

1 minute ago, Granular said:

You don't execute deb files. You open them with a package manager like Gdebi.

can i open it in Synaptic? that's the only package manager i have right now.

[Granular]

You can do it with dpkg, which you definitely have as described here.

Synaptic is for retrieving packages from repositories.

[AlTech]

6 minutes ago, Granular said:

You can do with dpkg, which you definitely have as described here.

Synaptic is for retrieving packages from repositories.

I tried to do this....

alastair@alastairPC:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i discord-0.0.1.deb
Selecting previously unselected package discord.
(Reading database ... 185517 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack discord-0.0.1.deb ...
Unpacking discord (0.0.1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of discord:
 discord depends on libgconf-2-4; however:
  Package libgconf-2-4 is not installed.
 discord depends on libappindicator1; however:
  Package libappindicator1 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package discord (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5+elementary2~ubuntu0.4.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 discord

 

[Granular]

Damn, dpkg doesn't automatically install dependencies. Everywhere I see people suggesting Gdebi. Are you sure you don't have it?

When you right-click on the file and go to the 'Open-with' menu, can you set the program to open it with to 'gdebi-gtk'? If not, you can

sudo apt-get install gdebi-gtk

and then set it as the handler for .deb files or manually install the missing dependencies dpkg showed you with

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4 libappindicator1

and then try installing Discord with dpkg again.

[AlTech]

9 minutes ago, Granular said:

Damn, dpkg doesn't automatically install dependencies. Everywhere I see people suggesting Gdebi. Are you sure you don't have it?

When you right-click on the file and go to the 'Open-with' menu, can you set the program to open it with to 'gdebi-gtk'? If not, you can

sudo apt-get install gdebi-gtk

and then set it as the handler for .deb files or manually install the missing dependencies dpkg showed you with

sudo apt-get install libgconf-2-4 libappindicator1

and then try installing Discord with dpkg again.

Thanks a ton .