It’s helpful to be able to have very few packages installed on your system and have all desktop apps run in containers, like with Fedora Silverblue. Snap packages can be a bit controversial, but they’re an important part of our ecosystem for many users and is the method many use to get the most of their applications. Open the software center and search for Telegram by clicking on the search icon, and from the given results, the first result is what you’re looking for.

How to Install the Telegram Desktop App via Snap Method 1: Install Telegram in Ubuntu using Software Center This is the most convenient way to install any software, especially if you’re a beginner and don’t want to mess around the terminal yet. Change the folder to whichever you downloaded it to. This presumes that you downloaded it to your “~/Downloads” folder. Download it, then extract it, move the binary to the “/opt” directory, and link it to the “/bin” directory with the following: cd ~/Downloads tar -xJvf tsetup.0.7.2.tar sudo mv Telegram /opt/telegram sudo ln -sf /opt/telegram/Telegram /usr/bin/telegram

There is also a distro-agnostic tarball available from Telegram’s official downloads page.

How to Install the Telegram Desktop App in any Linux Distro That’ll grab the latest version from the repositories and install it on your system.

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