Telegram Installation in Fedora 39 – Step-by-step

Installing

2. 2. Downloading Telegram

   Download Telegram Messenger App for Linux

   Telegram .tar.xz Linux

   
   Get Telegram Messenger Linux

3. 3. Extracting Telegram

   Double-Click/Right-Click on Archive and Extract into /tmp.

   
   Or from Shell:

   tar xvf ~/Downloads/tsetup*.tar.xz -C /tmp/

   But if you are in Trouble to Find it out then See: How to Access Downloads Folder from Browser.

4. 4. Installing Telegram

   To Install Telegram App.

   Set the SuperUser as owner with:
   (This for a System-wide Setup with Admin Privileges, for a Local one simply Store and Run it from within your User’s Home Folder)

   sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/Telegram*

   Authenticate with the User Admin Pass.
   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo
   Then Switch the Telegram contents:

   sudo  mv /tmp/Telegram* /opt/

   To insert Telegram into the System Path:

   sudo ln -s /opt/Telegram/Telegram /usr/local/bin/Telegram

5. 5. Launching Telegram

   Launching Telegram Messenger.

   From Terminal with:

   Telegram

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