How to Install Telegram Desktop on Arch Linux/Manjaro

Cyrus Kao11 Feb 2022

Last modified on 11 Feb 2022 at 05:33:12

Telegram Desktop is the official client for Telegram Messenger. It's also open-source, the source code is available Github. We'll be installing Telegram Desktop from AUR on Arch based Linux distros, there is a community package called telegram-desktop that pretty much automate the installation process for us.

Installation

Install telegram-desktop from AUR:

Using pacman
```
sudo pacman -S telegram-desktop
Bash
```
Using yay
```
yay -S telegram-desktop
Bash
```

Usage

Use the desktop shortcut to open Telegram Desktop or by CLI (Command-Line Interface):

telegram-desktop
Bash

Then here you go:

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How to Install Telegram Desktop on Arch Linux/Manjaro

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