Installer can't seem to find snap version of Discord

[YamiYukiSenpai]

I tried installing on /snap & /snap/discord/52/usr/share, but the installer can't seem to find it.
ls /snap/discord/
38 41 52 current
$ ls /snap/discord/current/usr/share/
alsa avahi dbus-1 doc-base gconf icons libthai mime sgml X11 applications bash-completion discord fonts glib-2.0 libdrm lintian pixmaps themes apport bug doc GConf gtk-engines libsensors4 man pkgconfig upstart
$ ls /snap/discord/current/usr/share/discord
blink_image_resources_200_percent.pak discord.png natives_blob.bin ui_resources_200_percent.pak content_resources_200_percent.pak icudtl.dat pdf_viewer_resources.pak views_resources_200_percent.pak content_shell.pak libffmpeg.so postinst.sh Discord libnode.so resources discord.desktop locales snapshot_blob.bin

[ObserverOfTime]

Looks like snap is a bit tricky.
It worked by manually setting the paths and using the -c flag to copy the BetterDiscord files instead of symlinking. When symlinking, snap Discord seems to fail to follow the link and can't find betterdiscord.js.
This is what you need:
betterdiscordctl install -v -c -d "/snap/discord/current/usr/share/discord" -m "$HOME/snap/discord/current/.config/discord/0.0.4/modules"

Note that when Discord updates and the version number is changed, you will need to use the new version number.

The BetterDiscord settings will be located in "$HOME/snap/discord/current/.config/BetterDiscord".

[ObserverOfTime]

Update: I have added snap support to my fork. You can use that if you want.
betterdiscordctl install -v -s /snap/discord/current/usr/share --snap

[bb010g]

That's really curious that symlinking fails with Snap.

[ObserverOfTime]

After some more testing, it seems that snap installations don't have access to files outside their parent directory. That's why the symlink can't be followed. The snap docs confirm this.

[bb010g]

Could you see if it's fixed now that #2 is merged?

[YamiYukiSenpai]

$ sudo ./betterdiscordctl --snap install
WARN: Config directory not found for (/snap/discord/current/usr/share/discord, /root/snap/discord/52/.config/discord).
ERROR: Discord installation not found.

[bb010g]

Could you try running that without sudo?

[YamiYukiSenpai]

$ ./betterdiscordctl --snap install
./betterdiscordctl: line 418: pushd: /home/yamiyukisenpai/.local/share/betterdiscordctl/asar: No such file or directory
Updating asar...
./betterdiscordctl: line 420: npm: command not found
./betterdiscordctl: line 422: popd: directory stack empty
./betterdiscordctl: line 423: /home/yamiyukisenpai/.local/share/betterdiscordctl/asar/node_modules/asar/bin/asar.js: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /home/yamiyukisenpai/snap/discord/52/.config/discord/0.0.4/modules/discord_desktop_core/core/app/mainScreen.js: No such file or directory
Cloning https://github.com/rauenzi/BetterDiscordApp...
./betterdiscordctl: line 461: /home/yamiyukisenpai/.local/share/betterdiscordctl/bd_map: Permission denied
fatal: could not create leading directories of '/home/yamiyukisenpai/.local/share/betterdiscordctl/bd/0': Permission denied
cp: cannot stat '/home/yamiyukisenpai/.local/share/betterdiscordctl/bd/0': No such file or directory
Installed. (Restart Discord if necessary.)

BTW, I restarted my laptop just in case that solves it.

[bb010g]

Ok, so you've got a couple of problems going on here. First thing is that you installed using sudo, so the data directory got set up with root permissions. You'll need to sudo rm -r ~/.local/share/betterdiscordctl first to let betterdiscordctl fix that. Next, install npm, as noted in the readme. Finally, you seem to have some weird permissions also for Discord. Could you run ls -l ~/snap/discord/52/.config/discord/0.0.4/modules/discord_desktop_core/{,core/{,app/}}?

[YamiYukiSenpai]

Whoops. Thought I had npm.

$ ls -l ~/snap/discord/52/.config/discord/0.0.4/modules/discord_desktop_core/{,core/{,app/}}
ls: cannot access '/home/yamiyukisenpai/snap/discord/52/.config/discord/0.0.4/modules/discord_desktop_core/core/': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access '/home/yamiyukisenpai/snap/discord/52/.config/discord/0.0.4/modules/discord_desktop_core/core/app/': No such file or directory
/home/yamiyukisenpai/snap/discord/52/.config/discord/0.0.4/modules/discord_desktop_core/:
total 6564
-rw-rw-r-- 1 yamiyukisenpai yamiyukisenpai 6711726 Jan  9 12:57 core.asar
-rw-rw-r-- 1 yamiyukisenpai yamiyukisenpai      35 Feb 13 14:44 index.js
-rw-rw-r-- 1 yamiyukisenpai yamiyukisenpai      84 Jan  9 12:57 package.json

[bb010g]

Derp, yeah, that makes sense. Those are generated by the asar unpacking. :)

[YamiYukiSenpai]

Hey, I think deleting ~/.local/share/betterdiscordctl worked! Thanks for the help!
And maybe installing npm, too (I swear I thought I had it in my laptop already)

$ ./betterdiscordctl --snap install             Installing asar...
/home/yamiyukisenpai/.local/share/betterdiscordctl/asar
└─┬ asar@0.14.2 
  ├── chromium-pickle-js@0.2.0 
  ├── commander@2.14.1 
  ├── cuint@0.2.2 
  ├─┬ glob@6.0.4 
  │ ├─┬ inflight@1.0.6 
  │ │ └── wrappy@1.0.2 
  │ ├── inherits@2.0.3 
  │ ├── once@1.4.0 
  │ └── path-is-absolute@1.0.1 
  ├─┬ minimatch@3.0.4 
  │ └─┬ brace-expansion@1.1.11 
  │   ├── balanced-match@1.0.0 
  │   └── concat-map@0.0.1 
  ├─┬ mkdirp@0.5.1 
  │ └── minimist@0.0.8 
  ├─┬ mksnapshot@0.3.1 
  │ ├─┬ decompress-zip@0.3.0 
  │ │ ├─┬ binary@0.3.0 
  │ │ │ ├── buffers@0.1.1 
  │ │ │ └─┬ chainsaw@0.1.0 
  │ │ │   └── traverse@0.3.9 
  │ │ ├── graceful-fs@4.1.11 
  │ │ ├── mkpath@0.1.0 
  │ │ ├─┬ nopt@3.0.6 
  │ │ │ └── abbrev@1.1.1 
  │ │ ├── q@1.5.1 
  │ │ ├─┬ readable-stream@1.1.14 
  │ │ │ ├── core-util-is@1.0.2 
  │ │ │ ├── isarray@0.0.1 
  │ │ │ └── string_decoder@0.10.31 
  │ │ └─┬ touch@0.0.3 
  │ │   └── nopt@1.0.10 
  │ ├─┬ fs-extra@0.26.7 
  │ │ ├── jsonfile@2.4.0 
  │ │ ├── klaw@1.3.1 
  │ │ └─┬ rimraf@2.6.2 
  │ │   └─┬ glob@7.1.2 
  │ │     └── fs.realpath@1.0.0 
  │ └─┬ request@2.83.0 
  │   ├── aws-sign2@0.7.0 
  │   ├── aws4@1.6.0 
  │   ├── caseless@0.12.0 
  │   ├─┬ combined-stream@1.0.6 
  │   │ └── delayed-stream@1.0.0 
  │   ├── extend@3.0.1 
  │   ├── forever-agent@0.6.1 
  │   ├─┬ form-data@2.3.1 
  │   │ └── asynckit@0.4.0 
  │   ├─┬ har-validator@5.0.3 
  │   │ ├─┬ ajv@5.5.2 
  │   │ │ ├── co@4.6.0 
  │   │ │ ├── fast-deep-equal@1.0.0 
  │   │ │ ├── fast-json-stable-stringify@2.0.0 
  │   │ │ └── json-schema-traverse@0.3.1 
  │   │ └── har-schema@2.0.0 
  │   ├─┬ hawk@6.0.2 
  │   │ ├── boom@4.3.1 
  │   │ ├─┬ cryptiles@3.1.2 
  │   │ │ └── boom@5.2.0 
  │   │ ├── hoek@4.2.0 
  │   │ └── sntp@2.1.0 
  │   ├─┬ http-signature@1.2.0 
  │   │ ├── assert-plus@1.0.0 
  │   │ ├─┬ jsprim@1.4.1 
  │   │ │ ├── extsprintf@1.3.0 
  │   │ │ ├── json-schema@0.2.3 
  │   │ │ └── verror@1.10.0 
  │   │ └─┬ sshpk@1.13.1 
  │   │   ├── asn1@0.2.3 
  │   │   ├── bcrypt-pbkdf@1.0.1 
  │   │   ├── dashdash@1.14.1 
  │   │   ├── ecc-jsbn@0.1.1 
  │   │   ├── getpass@0.1.7 
  │   │   ├── jsbn@0.1.1 
  │   │   └── tweetnacl@0.14.5 
  │   ├── is-typedarray@1.0.0 
  │   ├── isstream@0.1.2 
  │   ├── json-stringify-safe@5.0.1 
  │   ├─┬ mime-types@2.1.17 
  │   │ └── mime-db@1.30.0 
  │   ├── oauth-sign@0.8.2 
  │   ├── performance-now@2.1.0 
  │   ├── qs@6.5.1 
  │   ├── safe-buffer@5.1.1 
  │   ├── stringstream@0.0.5 
  │   ├─┬ tough-cookie@2.3.3 
  │   │ └── punycode@1.4.1 
  │   ├── tunnel-agent@0.6.0 
  │   └── uuid@3.2.1 
  └─┬ tmp@0.0.28 
    └── os-tmpdir@1.0.2 

npm WARN asar No description
npm WARN asar No repository field.
npm WARN asar No license field.
Cloning https://github.com/rauenzi/BetterDiscordApp...
Cloning into '/home/yamiyukisenpai/.local/share/betterdiscordctl/bd/0'...
remote: Counting objects: 6667, done.
remote: Total 6667 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 6666
Receiving objects: 100% (6667/6667), 20.02 MiB | 2.17 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4244/4244), done.
Installed. (Restart Discord if necessary.)

[bb010g]

Awesome! I'll close this, then. Again, thanks a bunch @ObserverOfTime for actually implementing and testing Snap stuff.