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Can't I go one week without having to uninstall and reinstall the damn deb file?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I used this every time (with sudo):

#!/bin/sh
[ "$USER" != root ] && { sudo "$0" && exit; }
latest_version=$(
  curl -sI 'https://discord.com/api/download?platform=linux&format=deb' \
  | grep '^location:' \
  | grep -m 1 -oP '\d[\d.]+\d' \
  | head -n 1
)
sed -i.bak 's/\(version.*\)[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+/\1'"$latest_version"'/' \
  '/usr/share/discord/resources/build_info.json'

Let's see how good the Flatpak version will be.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

just fyi I moved Discord, GIMP, Obsidian, and OBS over to flatpak and my root partition jumped from 19GB to 23GB. I'm kinda sad about it tbh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Most storage space viewers get confused by Flatpak's heavily deduplicated and compressed files, leading to them reporting way larger space than what's actually occupied on the hard drive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

4GB ain't to cry over, you already saved so much not using Windows :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's true lol. I had to install Docker for teaching on my old drive and that instantly maxed out my root partition even when I kept deleting intermediate builds and unused data. Now I have this fun paranoia for all apps :)

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