[Bug] Discord no longer autodetected when installing

[kalte-herz]

Before Reporting

• I found no existing issues matching my bug
• My issue is not caused by a plugin or theme

Describe the Bug

When updating Discord to 1.0.136, BetterDiscord cannot see the Discord client to reinstall.

Expected Behavior

BetterDiscord sees the Discord client automatically; or it can be selected by following the steps detailed in the Troubleshooting documentation

Steps To Reproduce

Update Discord to 1.0.136
Run BetterDiscord installer
When choosing which Discord version, no versions are autodetected, and cannot by selected by browsing, even within Discord's files.

Operating System

Linux

Discord Version

Stable

BetterDiscord Version

v1.13.13 (assumed, cannot load it)

Anything else?

I have tried reinstalling both Discord and the BetterDiscord Installer. I have also gone through the troubleshooting documentation and tried to complete it to the best of my ability (am on Linux and solutions are describe for Windows)

[KingGamingYT]

This is a known issue, Discord has changed the install path on MacOS and Linux. You can manually add the path (differs by operating system and linux distribution) or wait for a fix (this would also be better suited for https://github.com/BetterDiscord/Installer)

[eslym]

manually select the path ~/.config/discord/app-1.0.136/modules/discord_desktop_core-1/discord_desktop_core/ does work

[cpowell]

Manual path selection works on Mac with the following path:

~/Library/Application Support/discord/app-0.0.389/modules/discord_desktop_core-1/discord-desktop-core

[ipkpjersi]

Wait, how is this completed? There hasn't been a new commit to the development branch or a new release in 3 years from what I can see.

When should we expect to see this fixed, or will this not be fixed?

FWIW, bdcli reports:
could not find a valid Discord installation at /home/ipkpjersi/.config/discord/app-1.0.137/modules/discord_desktop_core-1/discord_desktop_core/

But when I manually select that path in BetterDiscord Installer v1.3.0, it does work for installing.

However, my desktop shortcut then says something like failed to execute command /usr/share/discord/Discord (No such file or directory)

I have to run /usr/bin/discord manually, and then it works, so I updated my shortcuts and all is good for now.

[zerebos]

We are waiting for Discord's updater changes to become more stable. It may lead to us switching to a new injection method (that helps survive updates). So we wanted to wait to patch the installers. If this goes on much longer I'll put out a patch for both the GUI installer, bdcli, and the #381 PR

[steanne]

can probably be merged with #408 as well