I have been successfully updating discord by using the .deb
it asks me to download as an 'update' every so often, but this is really weird to me. Shouldn't the .deb
allow my package manager to track their repository, and therefore not need to download a new one at each update? Is there some setting that I don't have set that causes this to happen, or is this something on discord's end? This is one of the only packages that behaves this way for me.
EDIT: I was asked what the apt-cache policy returned for discord, so I ran that from a terminal and here are the results:
discord:
Installed: 0.0.14
Candidate: 0.0.14
Version table:
*** 0.0.14 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I don't really know how to read this, but I note that there's no repository recorded here, where there ought to be if there was one, so I guess discord is sending individual programs out via its .deb
s rather than creating a repository for them to pull updates in from.
apt-cache policy discord
. If it contains only100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
then you do not have software source for Discord.