Allowing you to manage all of your discord versions. This was made as I was impatient to waiting for AUR maintainers (no offense 😂 we have lives) to update discord packages. This solves that problem: since you can update your version by just doing dvm update <type>. This utility is heavily inspired by the rustup command line tool

You can install the binary version of dvm through the dvm AUR package

Or you can compile from source using the dvm-git AUR package

At the moment I haven't bothered making this available on other package managers as the issue dvm wants to solve usually isn't present in those other distros.

If you prefer compiling from source you can do the following

• Rust Nightly (rustup or your distro might provide a rustup package, then rustup install nightly)

git clone https://github.com/diced/dvm
cd dvm
cargo +nightly build # make sure you have rust nightly installed like stated above

If you don't want to bother compiling from source then you may use the precompiled binary that I provide on the releases page

Note: The precompiled binary is not a statically compiled binary, so if it happens to error, run ldd dvm-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and it will show the libraries it needs, then install them.

wget https://github.com/diced/dvm/releases/download/<version>/dvm-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
chmod +x dvm
./dvm # you can move it into /usr/bin or move it into somewhere then add it to $PATH

dvm 1.1.9

USAGE:
    dvm <SUBCOMMAND>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

SUBCOMMANDS:
    completions          get shell completions
    help                 Prints this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
    install              install the latest <type> of discord
    install-open-asar    install openasar for <type> of discord
    remove               remove the installed <type> of discord
    run                  run discord with specific options
    show                 show all installed versions
    update               update to the latest <type> of discord

To install a specific version just type in

dvm install stable

This will do the following:

1. Download the latest stable tarball from discord
2. Extract it into $HOME/.dvm
3. Create a bin file that executes the executable
4. Copy desktop and icons to their folders

If you forget to add the flag -o when installing discord, you can install open asar by doing

dvm install-open-asar stable

...or do it when installing discord

dvm install stable -o

You can install multiple versions at once, they will be executed one after the other.

dvm install stable ptb canary development

Removing installations is as easy as installing them

dvm remove stable

This will do the following:

1. Remove the $HOME/.dvm/
2. Remove desktop entries and icons
3. Remove the bin file

Updating installations is as easy as installing them

dvm update stable

This will do the following:

1. Check if discord actually needs to be updated
2. Download the latest tarball
3. Remove the $HOME/.dvm/
4. Do everything the installation does.

This will show all installations that are currently installed, the --verbose, -v flag will show the path it's installed to, and the --check, -c flag will check if your installations are up-to-date (red = outdated, green = up to date)

dvm show
dvm show -v
dvm show -c
dvm show -vc

# no flag
canary:0.0.133
development:0.0.198
stable:0.0.17
# -v
canary:0.0.133 -> /home/diced/.dvm/DiscordCanary
development:0.0.198 -> /home/diced/.dvm/DiscordDevelopment
stable:0.0.17 -> /home/diced/.dvm/Discord

You can run discord via command line with extra flags

dvm run canary <extra args>
# for example
dvm run canary --idk-some-chromium-flag-or-something

Get shell completions for your shell of choice

dvm completions zsh