How to update discord on archlinux ?

I hate discord updates!, they do lots of updates which prevents discord desktop from launching. Bad for me that I use Archlinux, as discord ships thier updates as .deb.

So how to manually update discord without waiting for the package maintainer to update it for you ?

Cheating way

This method allows you to trick the Discord into thinking it’s been updated. First, check for the path of the discord executable

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file $(which discord) 

Then edit the resources/build_info.json in that path.

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{
    "releaseChannel": "stable",
    "version": "0.0.xx" // change to the latest version
}

The proper way

This method involves using the Arch Build System

1. Download the asp through yay : yay -S asp
2. Export the PKGBUILD file from discord : asp export discord
3. Edit the pkgver=0.0.xx in the PKGBUILD with the current version.
4. Build discord : makepkg -si