Discord: Difference between revisions

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Discord refuses to start because they have released an update and ~~only the latest version can connect~~ to ~~their service~~.

Discord refuses to start because they have released an update and it wants to download that instead.

~~Most of~~ the ~~time this is a temporary problem~~, ~~and~~ you can ~~just wait for~~ the version ~~to be bumped in nixpkgs and update then~~.

To prevent Discord from checking for new versions, add the following to ~/.config/discord/settins.json:

~~For~~ the ~~impatient the workaround is~~ something like this:

<syntaxhighlight lang="json">"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true</syntaxhighlight>

Alternatively, you can install the updated version.

If the version has already been updated in a newer version of nixpkgs, installing it works something like this:

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An overlay to build discord manually from the URL to the latest tarball on [https://discord.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=tar.gz], see [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/94806]

If it was fixed in master, the other alternatives are:

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 [[File:discord_update_latest.png]]
-Discord refuses to start because they have released an update and only the latest version can connect to their service.
+Discord refuses to start because they have released an update and it wants to download that instead.
-Most of the time this is a temporary problem, and you can just wait for the version to be bumped in nixpkgs and update then.
+To prevent Discord from checking for new versions, add the following to ~/.config/discord/settins.json:
-For the impatient the workaround is something like this:
+<syntaxhighlight lang="json">"SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true</syntaxhighlight>
+Alternatively, you can install the updated version.
+If the version has already been updated in a newer version of nixpkgs, installing it works something like this:
 <syntaxhighlight lang="nix">
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 An overlay to build discord manually from the URL to the latest tarball on [https://discord.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=tar.gz], see [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/94806]
-If it was  fixed in master, the other alternatives are:
+If it was fixed in master, the other alternatives are:
 <syntaxhighlight lang="console">