Discord on Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE 4)

What is discord? As the website says:

Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice,video, and text, wether you're part of a school club, a nightly gaming group, a worldwide art community, or just a handful of friends that want to hang out.

To install Discord on Linux Mint Debian Edition a.k.a LMDE 4 Debbie, open the Software Manager apps, go to search, insert the keyword Discord and click install button. And thats it.. ...wait what?

Please take a look at the list of change below. 722.2 MB will be downloaded in total. 2.5 GB more disk space will be used.  O_o"

Unfortunately, Discord only available from flatpak packages and not in the repositories as apt-cache policy returns nothing.

So the Software Manager wants to install Flatpak first before it can install other packages.

Maybe, Flatpak has some benefical as it said it allow the packages to be distro independent and more secure than installing unofficial packages. But hey, i will choose unofficial path for now :)

And yes, the Discord websites provide "unofficial" packages to be downloaded.

Save it to the hard disk.

2.2 MB will be downloaded in total. 179.1 MB more disk space will be used.

Install it and enjoy more free GB's for another use :D

Location of The deb Files Stored

Here is the story :

After several months using SolydXK and it ran smoothly, i want to install it into another PC of mine or maybe my friends (and it might goes to my friends' friend).

The problem : 

Slow internet connection to download latest iso or to upgrade the system after fresh installation, and even to download many softwares needed.

Solution : 
Note, need a little command-line process to do the steps.

Copy the deb files from up-to-date already installed SolydX located at :

/var/cache/apt/archives/

into a removable media. You need to be root-ed to do the copy. To do this just open terminal and type sudo thunar.
Note, the SolydX system never being cleaned with :

sudo apt-get clean

Install the new PC with old iso just as explained in this post.
Browse the copied archive folder at removable media, right click and select open terminal here.

type

sudo dpkg -i *.deb 

and hit enter
Note: none of the PC using proprietary driver.

Since my deb files is about 800 mb, it might take a while to be finished.

Then check if there's any broken package using synaptic.

Broken package can be seen through Custom Filters - Broken filters.

To fix this, open the terminal and issue

sudo apt-get -f install

and we got an up-to-date system, plus bonus pae-kernel, a pack of application already installed (like the old PC) and it only needs to download a few packages in order to fix broken packages.

System is up to date.



Note, if you have a decent internet connection, it is much safer to download latest iso or doing regular update after installing the old iso due to the different hardware on every PC.