install telegram on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

After installing Telegram Desktop on Ubuntu 16.04 by these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/telegram
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install telegram

I get this error:

$ telegram
telegram: Panic - Unable to find your tty (pts/2) in /var/run/utmp

The repo is obsolete. The latest version it have is *0.9.35* whilst [the actual latest version atm is *0.9.44*](https://desktop.telegram.org/). — Hi-Angel, Apr 23 '16 at 10:52
That ppa is fine. Launch telegram in terminal as `/opt/telegram/Telegram`. Yes it is bad that there is no alias or smth. — ipeacocks, Feb 13 '18 at 11:58

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 13 '18 at 16:05

6

Telegram Desktop

Please use either

Telegram offers as well a Webinterface and a Chrome app.

A list of official and unofficial clients can be found here.

I am using Franz myself, as it covers several Messengers (Skype, Whatsapp, Telegram, Slack, FB-Messenger etc) in 1 client.

edited Dec 13 '18 at 16:05

Thomas Ward

answered Jun 08 '16 at 11:35

dufte

Alright, i added some more links in the meantime. Feel free to report back how it worked out. – dufte Jun 08 '16 at 11:43
@Mahdi.Pishguy: is it working for you? – dufte Jun 09 '16 at 09:11
I had forgotten.please let me to check and waiting to reply :) – DolDurma Jun 09 '16 at 09:57
@Mahdi.Pishguy: Feel free to mark the answer as accepted if installation works for you. Greetings – dufte Jun 17 '16 at 09:29
I am checking this now and will report back if this works. – Brock Vond Aug 17 '17 at 13:48