Title: Installing Discord on Debian testing/bookworm
Date: 2022-02-14 17:45

My beloved [ThinkPad
x230](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_X_series#X230) is dying, so I had
to migrate away from it. Amongst the software I had to re-install on my new
machine was [Discord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord_(software)) because
we're using it at [OpenMW](https://openmw.org) and
[navidrome](https://navidrome.org). Unfortunately, its package is broken,
because it's depending on `libappindicator3-1` which isn't required nor
packaged in bookworm, so here is a copy-pasteable walk-through on how to
install it:

```
$ wget https://dl.discordapp.net/apps/linux/0.0.17/discord-0.0.17.deb
$ dpkg-deb -x discord-0.0.17.deb unpack
$ dpkg-deb --control discord-0.0.17.deb
$ mv DEBIAN unpack
$ sed -i s/libappindicator[^,]\+,// ./unpack/DEBIAN/control
$ dpkg -b unpack discord-fixed.deb
$ su -
# dpkg -i discord-fixed.deb
Selecting previously unselected package discord.
(Reading database ... 1337 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack discord-fixed.deb ...
Unpacking discord (0.0.17) ...
Setting up discord (0.0.17) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...
#^D
$ command -v discord                                     
/usr/bin/discord
$ 
```

A cleaner alternative would be to use
[equiv](https://manpages.debian.org/testing/equivs/equivs-build.1.en.html)
to build a phony `libappindicator3-1` package instead.